[exDemMom]

I would surmise that the world community is waiting for good old Uncle Sugar to come up with some expensive, stop gap medicines to slow the scourge of (dare I say it?) this new African plague. If the spread of AIDS hasn’t necessitated a quarantine, why the concern over Ebola?

The US has, in fact, been working on medicines for Ebola for a long time, on the taxpayer's dime.

Unlike Ebola, AIDS does not kill gruesomely within days. And it is not nearly as infectious.

[Thommas]

And it is not nearly as infectious.

True. You can't get AIDS from fomites or surface contamination. But, within select communities, needles and certain sodomite practices make the rate of infection virtually the same.