[exDemMom]

homas Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control, likened the rapid spread of Ebola to the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. While the spread of AIDS scared society—largely because so much about it at the time was unknown—a better analogy to the spread of Ebola may be the infamous influenza epidemic of 1918.

There is hardly an analogy. Like AIDS, Ebola is a blood-borne pathogen and is spread through behavior. Compared to Ebola, the viral load of AIDS is very low, and it requires a higher dose of virus to actually get AIDS, which is why AIDS is far less infectious than Ebola. But neither disease is very contagious, since they require close contact.

Influenza, however, is highly contagious, since it is transmitted through aerosols as well as through contact. If Ebola spread through the air, we'd already have millions of cases.

[acapesket]

Thomas Friedan (D.Idiot) was Bloomie’s former smoking Czar… like tobacco was more “hateful” than this worldwide epidemic.
Political Correctness is going to kill us all!