yet the UN and local health workers have kept Ebola under control by isolation and a new vaccine.
People catch Ebola from eating monkey meat. And then it spreads from person to person via body fluids: So if you care for a patient, or if you bury one, you will probably catch it.
Gloves etc do protect, but when I worked in Africa, gloves were of poor quality and often broke during routing surgery...
The UN said it was a world wide danger, but tell you the truth, they should have declared this months ago. But now it is spreading to nearby countries, and they worry it could be brought to rich first world countries via tourists or medical personnel going home. Hence it is not a priority: Can't let rich folks die.
It is not “biowarfare”. Why would anyone want to kill a bunch of poor Africans? But it is spread by poverty, lack of garbage collection, lack of running water, poor living conditions etc.
If Ebola came to the USA, it would not spread that fast, and those at main risk would be medical personnel.
Ebola is getting all the press, but there is also a measles epidemic in the area which has killed a couple thousand people too, mainly kids. This also is being controlled by vaccination.
and you missed the yellow fever epidemics in Brazil and Angola... some Chinese migrant workers brought it back to China from Angola, but luckily it did not spread thanks to mosquito control. Yellow fever killed 20 thousand in Philadelphia in the 1790s, so that could easily cause problems especially since the “green” types don't want mosquito control.
and the same mosquitoes carry Dengue. My cousin is in the hospital here in the Philippines with Dengue. Not usually fatal, but it does make you quite sick.
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