Topic > Ebola Case Study - 1219

(Reuters, 2014) Mortality occurs with Ebola incidence and starvation occurs in disaster areas. As nearly 200,000 people have trouble getting food due to the Ebola epidemic (Ebola Facts, 2014), fewer and fewer people are able to get clear foods to eat. According to Sen's (2000) view on mortality, “a good portion of famine-associated mortality results from diseases triggered by debilitation, collapse of health facilities, population movements, and the infectious spread of endemic diseases in the region.” (Sen, 2000, p. 169) The person loses the ability to choose to feed and feed themselves in the circumstance of famine, caused by disease. It is evident that those people cannot use the resource freely like being free to be fed or