This article from Bill Gates via the NY Times seems to be discussing the Ebola outbreak in past tense - is it done, then?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/opini ... worse.html

Ebola killed less people in Africa than diarrhoeal diseases did in 2012, according to WHO. What an epidemic.

"The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has killed more than 10,000 people." These numbers are lower than current suicide rates. Yellow fever takes out an approximate 30,000 people every year in the US. Hell, 56,979 people died from influenza and pneumoni in the United States alone 2012-2013, according to CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db178_table.pdf

CDC was saying how ebola would kill "between 550,000 and 1.4 million" people by January. What the hell were they basing that on? The WHO also predicted that we'd basically all be gone by now. 550,000 - 1.4 million became "more than 10,000 people".

In their report the CDC said we'd all be doomed unless "additional interventions or changes in community behavior" happened. Did any additional interventions or changes in behavior happen? No. It's becoming increasingly hard for me to listen to these institutions the more they are injected with propaganda. Of course CDC and WHO et al didn't save us all. They were exaggerating.

Let's turn the table on Bill.

In an interview with the Financial Times published Friday, Gates was asked whether providing Internet connectivity for the planet as Internet.org proposes is more important than coming up with vaccine for malaria.

"As a priority, it's a joke," he said. "Take this malaria vaccine, [this] weird thing that I'm thinking of. Hmm, which is more important, connectivity or malaria vaccine? If you think connectivity is the key thing, that's great. I don't."

http://www.cnet.com/news/bill-gates-pri ... is-a-joke/

Clearly, Bill, prioritizing ebola over malaria... As a priority, it's a joke :-) "About 500,000 people die each year from malaria." That's dangerously closer to the nightmare predictions made by the CDC about ebola than the actual ebola outbreak.

I'm actually a staunch fan of Bill and Melinda but you make some serious points there. The CDC has - at least in this instance - made a compete ass of itself.

I had to laugh at the 'increased health security measures' at all international airports on a recent flying visit to Australia. I was extremely unwell and outwardly presented most of the external symptoms of Ebola (including open weeping sores and blisters) and I was terrified that I'd get quarantined somewhere. But, not to worry, I'd signed the new "I don't have Ebola" cards at each crossing and nobody looked twice!

Bird flu, swine flu, SARS, mad cow disease. Potato chips give us all cancer, babies sleeping on their backs die of one reason and babies sleeping on their stomachs die of another.

Got to die from something.

new cases in Texas contracted in Africa announced today

Here's 6 hours ago. Not sure what the "mass vaccination" means.

The resurgence of the virus last year prompted drugmakers from across the world to develop new treatments that are in different stages of studies.

Mapp Biopharmaceutical's ZMapp and a compound from Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp have so far shown they could cure non-human primates given injections of Ebola virus.

Other companies that are testing potential treatments for the deadly infection are GlaxoSmithKline, Sarepta Pharmaceuticals Inc, Novavax Inc, Merck & Co and Johnson & Johnson.

The World Health Organization said it will decide on mass vaccination against the virus in August.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/ ... D520150318

huge money in it undoubtedly and a beach head in africa for troops.

frank lee bent wrote:huge money in it undoubtedly...

A lot like type 2 diabetes really - NOBODY is rushing to cure that one.