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RE: CDC report predicts as many as 1.4 million cases of Ebola by January
(09-24-2014 09:22 AM)john01992 Wrote: (09-24-2014 08:40 AM)ODUChm Wrote: (09-24-2014 08:30 AM)EverRespect Wrote: (09-24-2014 08:10 AM)ODUChm Wrote: (09-24-2014 07:50 AM)EverRespect Wrote: As I said before, it is an end of year money grab, just like H1N1 was. Not that Ebola isn't serious, but the likelihood it will come to the US and spread with reckless abandon is zero. It requires infected mucus and an open wound.
To be fair the CDC has said nothing about it coming here in the article, but simply upper estimations point towards an endemic is western africa.
True, but the fear an ignorance I am reading throughout cyberspace is astounding. And it isn't just the government and the left. Conservative sites also seem to be on board with the idea that Ebola is going to wipe us all out.
I think thats due to watching too many movies and reality. The truth is history is filled with diseases that wiped all large amounts of people, the black plague being the most obvious, and its only a matter of time before nature takes its course again on us but at the same time everytime there is an outbreak, this 24/7 news feed we live in sensationalizes the story and act like this 'one' will be the one
granted disease has always been a problem for mankind but these are rather unprecedented times.
we are living in globalized world that doesn't even compare to the way things were 30 years ago let along 100 or 150. Everything from daily international flights to roads being built to the most rural parts of the third world have enormous impacts on making a outbreak much more serious and much more likely than in the past.
we also have have been incredible protected in the past 100 years due to unprecedented breakthroughs in science, but those breakthroughs are not gonna protect us forever as these viruses will soon find ways to adapt. This ESPECIALLY true when we end up misusing antibiotics in the way that we do.
also there is a serious question being raised about ancient viruses being reintroduced. specifically examples like these:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/05/world/...iscovered/
I dont diagree at all, in regards to the diseases, its evolution in practice. Pathogens keep getting more difficult to defeat, and eventually one will come along that were not fast enough to contain/come up with a cure for, and it will have a devastating effect.
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