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Originally Posted by KillaPone View Post
One of the most destructive virus existing right now. Will it fade or will it stay?

At least describe the virus adequately. It's far from the most destructive virus out right now, it's killed only slightly more than 3000 people this year and infected anywhere from double to triple that amount. Malaria will go on to kill around 600,000 people this year and infect around 200 million. Sure, the death rate is higher on ebola, but that's due to the poor medical infrastructure moreso than the actual virus' capabilities. We have a pill for malaria, and it's still going to kill over 60 times the projected death toll of the ebola outbreak.

The only reason people are panicing now is because it spread out of Africa and was no longer a poor black people problem. No Western country or global governing body did anything about the ebola outbreak until the American doctor contracted ebola. Then white terror started and now pharma realizes the market for an ebola drug is there. Ebola was discovered in the 1960s and virtually no research into a vaccine or cure was performed until recently.
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From what ive heard is that all the people that had it got cured and one guy in Dallas is in Isolation, I have also heard its only in one city in the U.S.A, aslong as people from the U.S.A dont bring it to Canada/Mexico we are all gonna be fine. Humanity will live on.
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Originally Posted by Oracle View Post
At least describe the virus adequately. It's far from the most destructive virus out right now, it's killed only slightly more than 3000 people this year and infected anywhere from double to triple that amount. Malaria will go on to kill around 600,000 people this year and infect around 200 million.

Malaria is a parasite, not a virus. :P

The common flu, however, kills far more people every year.
There are very many viruses that are lethal and exist around the world. Ebola is just particularly interesting at the moment.
Originally Posted by Redundant View Post
Malaria is a parasite, not a virus. :P

The common flu, however, kills far more people every year.
There are very many viruses that are lethal and exist around the world. Ebola is just particularly interesting at the moment.

My bad, but my point that ebola isn't as dangerous as people make it sound still stands. There are many more destructive communicable diseases out there.

That being said, it's captvating the news because of a combination of things. One, the death rate is particularly high because of poor medical infrastructure. Two, because of that, and good ol' fashioned paranoia, quarantine has been less than successful up to this point, exasperating the problem. And three, like I mentioned before, nobody had worked on a vaccine or cure for ebola, so it looks like we're caught with our proverbial pants down.
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Originally Posted by Oracle View Post
My bad, but my point that ebola isn't as dangerous as people make it sound still stands. There are many more destructive communicable diseases out there.

and the only reason why ebola is considered the most dangerous atm is because we don't have a cure/vaccine for it.
Once there was a time when smallpox was still around. Technically it still is, but you never see it anymore despite how dangerous it is.
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If that were the case, then we should of considered it dangerous for the past 50 years. We've known of ebola since the 1960s. Like I said previously, it has nothing to do with the actual virus and more whom the virus is infecting. Nobody cared when it was a bunch of poor Africans in the 60s, and nobody cared now until a white doctor was infected. Then it was suddenly the super virus of the apocalypse, if peoples' reactions to it were an accurate litmus test of threat level.
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