Posted on 10/09/2014 10:22:04 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
The widening Ebola epidemic is reminiscent of the health threat caused by AIDS, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, urging action so Ebola "is not the world's next AIDS."
"In the 30 years I've been working in public health, the only thing like this has been AIDS," CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said at a World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meeting in Washington, D.C., where many countries pledged funds and services to try to stem the virus ravaging West Africa. "And we have to work now so that this is not the world's next AIDS."
AIDS also started in Africa, and experts agree it spread to cause a global pandemic because the world was slow to recognize it and fight it. Many leaders denied the virus caused the disease, and others blamed the patients for catching it.
Frieden spoke a day after Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, died in a Dallas hospital. Meanwhile, in West Africa, 8,033 people have been diagnosed with Ebola and 3,879 have died, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, adding that the true numbers were almost definitely higher.
AIDS has killed 36 million people since it started a pandemic in the 1980s. The human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS currently infects about 35 million people. Like Ebola, HIV is spread through bodily fluids.
Not only can you contract Ebola more easily, and even without the original carrier present - but Ebola kills you much quicker and in ways that you are more likely to spread the disease.
The only plus is if you survive ebola you are done with it.
aids was specific to behavior of homosexual men.
ebola ain’t like that.
aids doesn’t kill you in a week or two.
we didn’t fly known aids patients to other countries to have sesx with people there.
why we’re flying these people all over and then getting locals infected taing care of them, is insane.
protocols are impossible to follow 100%. all it takes is one time.
Ebola is primarily an African disease as well.
As I recall, there were also a whole bunch of people who got it from a dentist who didn't properly sterilize his tools.
The difference is critical. I lost a close friend to AIDS, and he was an innocent victim of contaminated blood products, but the overwhelming majority of those with AIDS got it doing things that normal, healthy, well-adjusted people don’t do. With Ebola, most people who get it were simply living in their neighborhood or working at a hospital. The only good part is that Ebola spreads slowly.
you got that from a GOVERNMENT AIDS website???
Would you quit wasting my time and just get to whatever goofy point that you are wanting to make?
Since the cause has been known for more than a decade, most of those “killed” today have used AIDS to achieve suicide.
About 1.6 million “suicides” a year from AIDs according to you.
My point is that when you read the words “according to the WHO” and “estimated” you should have thought something similar to when obama said “If you like your plan, you can keep it”
unless you are not yet able to spot political propaganda
No, you aren’t a better source, and if you wanted to do your conspiracy thing, you could have just said it right off instead of involving me in multiple posts and having me digging up links for you.
geez, you argue like a liberal...
name calling and red herrings, instead of factual rebuttal
...or from a Florida dentist.
That is your problem, you wanted to “argue” about something, and here you are creating a long and hostile exchange over nothing.
You asked for a source for AIDs death statistics and I gave it to you, but as we see that isn’t really what you wanted, you want some long argument, about something, but who knows what, and why.
The title makes no sense. Aids was totally controllable. The people at risk kept slipping other male/female partners the tube steak so to propagate the disease. Aids spread due to lack of self control.
AIDs still kills about 1.2 million people a year in Africa, and that is way down from what it was, but Ebola could also be stopped if they could get Africans to follow simple instructions and safe practices.
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