Originally Posted by
KillaPone
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.