World warned that Ebola ‘could be scourge like HIV’

Ebola kills QUICKLY, and can lie dormant for DAYS outside of a human body, waiting to infect a passerby.

You are correct that this is not at all like HIV in how it infects and how it kills. But the idea that Ebola can become endemic is sound. At the current time it is endemic in Africa. There are small clusters of cases (family + neighbors), those mostly die out or recover, but one victim leaves during incubation or after recovery and spreads it further.

It does not spread easily, therefore there is no mass contagion, and die-off and recovery and it is over. Rather it lingers and spreads and lingers and spreads.

The solution to Africa's problem is ridiculously simple. Take the infected and remove them from the rest of the population. Track and monitor their contacts and remove with any symptoms. All done. The reason why this is not done is that Africa is too primitive. In one village they cut the throats of the team that came to do the contact tracing.

With an undeveloped economy that carts dying victims in taxis to spread the virus everywhere, that washes bodies and buries them at home, we can expect this to remain endemic forever. As it gradually spreads the percentage of ebola in the 1000 people fleeing here a week will increase and we will have more and more cases and deaths of health care workers, family members, associates, etc and a breakdown of our health care system with billions in extra expenses.

No, Ebola is not a “scourge”. At this point it is little more than a media frenzy, like “rooooaaaaaddd raaaaaaggge!”

A great example is Nigeria, the most populated African country, where after a brief introduction of Ebola, they quickly put a stop to it, and after 42 days they have been declared Ebola-free by the WHO.

How did they achieve this “impossible miracle”?

Two ways: they closed their border, and they taught the public hygiene. Radical stuff, like “wash your hands after you go to the restroom, and before you eat.” And the ever popular “don’t play with dead bodies.”

This is what happens when you have an effective government, not one divided by brain dead socialists and multinational corporatists, led by an irritable depressed neurotic with a penchant for golfing too much.

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