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# Ebola’s Financial Effect On Industries

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## Video: Ebola’s Financial Effect On Industries

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_Published 2014-10-03. Though the human toll of the disease outbreak is incalculable, its effect on industry is more finite._


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## Transcript

In terms of the effects on human lives, the toll of the current outbreak of Ebola is incalculable. According to the World Health Organization, more than 3, 300 people are now dead with more than 7, 000 total cases reported. Where the effects are somewhat more finite though his the financial sector, with some industries taking steep dives and others ramping up in the face of the crisis. One of the industries hit hardest. Airlines. With the revelation that Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the US, traveled from Liberia to the US via airline. Some potential travelers are understandably concerned, especially considering according to CNN, Duncan was screened three times in Liberia before getting on a plane.

He reportedly passed all three temperature checks and was allowed to fly. The financial sector seems to share the concerns of travelers. As Fortune notes, in the wake of Duncan's diagnosis, shares of American Airlines dropped 1. 33 % on Thursday. And 3. 1 % the day before. Other industries taking a financial hit include the oil industry and mining. Why? Their location. Both industries have considerable activity in West Africa. In the area where the outbreak began. As USA Today reports Exxon Mobile's activities have been. Threatened and at the region even delaying some drilling. Then there are industries that are seeing a bump with continued reporting on the diseases spread.

Lakeland industries for instance, a company that makes protective clothing like hazmat suits, saw stocks rise a staggering 30 % the day after the first case of Ebola was confirmed in the U. S.. And, of course, the pharmaceutical industry. The search for a cure has been widely reported. With the make Zmap, Mapp Biopharmaceutical taking up many of the headlines. Their three antibody cocktail appears to have cured two missionaries who returned to the US from Africa with the disease.

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