I don’t think most people even know anyone who came down with let alone died from Sars or monkey Pox. They certainly don’t seem to be an epidemic. And you don’t get Aids unless you take in body fluids from someone who has HIV correct? So unless Ebola becomes airborn like influenza us here in America with our modern medical procedures it wouldn’t be able to advance very far would it?
Ebola has been killing since 1976 and will at some point reach 2000 dead.
Aids has killed 36 million since 1981, and 1.6 million in 2012, but most of us have moved on from it.
The problem is that all Ebola requires for transmission is *contact* with infected fluid. Not ingestion, not contact with an open wound. And “infected fluid” doesn’t have to be blood; it can be saliva, mucus, etc.
The difference with this strain of Ebola is they believe that is what’s it’s mutated to become: Airborne.
Previously, infected victims of Ebola had to be exposed to feces, blood, or other bodily fluids from an already infected victim at the height of contagion, meaning already dying in a bed showing full effects of the ghastly Ebola symptoms. It burns out because it kills too fast to be spread effectively.
Not this strain, evidently. The infected American doctor from Texas evidently had Ebola transmitted to him upon his arrival at the contagion outbreak site by merely embracing an African nurse in a gesture of greeting who didn’t herself display the first signs of fever until a whole week later. That’s something new. Moreover, they were wearing protective Tyvek hazardous contaminated environment suits at the time, doing nothing more than sharing the same air. That’s significant, and probably the real reason CDC rushed this doctor to Atlanta, which is also a first. They’re enormously interested in studying Ebola that’s apparently sprouted wings.
Ebola was once limited to tiny remote tropical villages way back in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. Now it’s in big cities for the first time and in three different African nations at once. We’re now reading the first reports that containment of this strain is out of control.
Quite a lot of ‘firsts’ here with this particular Ebola contagion.
Considering that the transmissions of AIDs took a very specific and intentional act, Ebola may pose a much greater risk for exposure to innocents should it escape containment.
There are many leftists who want this to happen.