Posted on 10/09/2014 7:39:06 PM PDT by lbryce
The Ebola outbreak has been escalating in the past few months, but could it cause a global pandemic similar to that of AIDS, as was suggested today by a top public health official?
Speaking at a meeting in Washington, D.C., today (Oct. 9), Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, compared the two diseases. "In the 30 years I've been working in public health, the only thing like this has been AIDS," Frieden said, referring to the Ebola outbreak. "And we have to work now so that this is not the world's next AIDS."
Ebola and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, have a number of similarities. Both are spread through blood and bodily fluids, both have high fatality rates, both emerged out of Africa and researchers have not developed a vaccine against either virus, said Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious-disease physician at the University of Pittsburgh. [5 Most Likely Real-Life Contagions]
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Self-induced stupidity through Political Correctness and other forms of liberal practices is now the second fasted growing self-induced malady after diabetes, sexual diseases.
Scientists have discovered that comparing AIDS to other non-sexually transmittable diseases in the utterly clueless manner typical of victims of ALWLSD (Acquired Left Wing Liberal Stupidity Disease) increases the virulence of the condition approaching levels to that of Mad Cow Disease Zombie-itis.
Complete garbage.
Unfortunately, unlike AIDS, this has the potential to get everyone no matter what they do
Unlike AIDS, Ebola completely clears from the body after infection. It can take a few weeks to clear from certain bodily fluids, but it will eventually clear.
HIV doesn’t kill you in 21 days.
OK, I have not read this yet, nor listened in detail to any of the similar reports today on TV/radio.
So, at risk of looking stupid, I say:
Oh please, it is much WORSE than AIDS. AIDS really is very, very limited in transmission.
Never mind it’s not an instant killer. In truth, it’s not clear it’s really that big a deal. Many are living for decades.
Indeed.. You can’t choose NOT to get Ebola. To equate AIDS and Ebola is NONSENSE.
The question we should be asking is: after the outbreaks in 1976 and 1995 made clear that barrier medicine was the best way to limit the spread of the disease, and with the additional lessons that should have been learned from HIV, why do Africans continue to follow the same deadly practices?
In West Africa, you catch disease.
Under Obolacare, disease catches YOU!
Maybe he knows something about queers and Ebola that we don’t .... could be something turned up in the billions he has spent on research on depopulation.
One is transmitted primarily by homo butt buddies or anyone else they have sex with. The other is not but could be but that’s where the similarities stop.
AIDS was (in 90%) of American cases, contracted by people who willfully exposed themselves through deviant sex and heroin use.
The few who has no choice were blood transfusion victims, and those who had cheating spouses.
The doctor who discovered ebola (and named it) worked in AIDS research for yesrs. He didn’t make the comparison and it is the politically correct who are trying to draw comparisons based on segments of society who are affected and “we must increase funding now!” claims.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with support from the United Nations are ready to submit guidelines to protect Ebola carriers, suspected Ebola carriers and those who been exposed to extremely contagious diseases, from travel discrimination/restrictions and civil rights violations.
The person who said this doesn’t even believe themselves. They are morons of the highest degree, only idiots with IQs of 70 will believe this drivel. Everyone knows what type of people spread AIDS.
Well, let’s see. AIDS came out of Africa. The killer bees came out of Africa. Ebola came out of Africa. I imagine Ebola could be the next AIDS. Or maybe the next swarm of killer bees. Take your pick.
You certainly don’t catch HIV through a sneeze.
The difference being, of course, that for the most part, AIDS is 100% avoidable (yes, I know, blood transfusions). Ebola. Not so much.
after 20-30 years, there are only 1m AIDs cases in the US
with ebola, there will easily be more then 1m cases in the US within the first year
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