Originally Posted by protonitron
I think that the virus did genuinely pose less of a threat to humanity when it was only in third world countries because those are the places least important for the development of a vaccine or at least a method of containment.
I virus that can be stopped by covering your mouth when you cough and washing your hands will never be a threat in a 1st world country. Even when the outbreak was only in Africa there were institutions developing vaccines.
Swine flu and avian flu were bigger threats than ebola.
Ebola just gets media attention because it's much more dramatic - it liquefies your organs! Well, that and because the Africans do stupid shit like destroy their containment wards and don't observe basic hygiene, that always makes a good story.
<Faint> the rules have been stated quite clearly 3 times now from high staff
This thread is cancer. I have to delete every second post because some people don't even know what a vaccine or an antibiotic is. If you don't know shit about anything, don't pretend you do. I'm a second year Biomedical Sciences student, and I KNOW my knowledge about ebola is inadequate to participate in a serious discussion about its effects.
Please, if you don't have any medical/pathological/biochemical/... knowledge, REFRAIN from posting here, or your post will be removed and reported.
Please, if you don't have any medical/pathological/biochemical/... knowledge, REFRAIN from posting here, or your post will be removed and reported.
Last edited by Arglax; Oct 8, 2014 at 06:13 PM.
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Well i live in south afica and while its not that bad right ow it is pretty scary but like most things i think we put it in the back of our heads and think it will go away "it wont happen to me".this is especially true of white people especially in south africa as we believe with aids ect ect we just tend to think all the bad things will happen to the africans.
It has nothing to do with infrastucture , it has everything to to with behavior and lack of education,aids still spreads wildly in africa,why? becuase the goverment refuses to educate the people on prevention,and even when they do people just dont listen.
a Big problem in africa even here in Rsa which is a bit more civilised i have littrally herd people say if i contract aids i will go to a Sangoma(witch doctor) and have it cured.they arent scared and even if the sangomas fail (like the government) they continue to believe.
example the lonmin mine disaster where almost a hundred miners were shot dead for charging at the police,it was later found out that a sangoma put muti(medicine magic) on them to make them invincible) they chared in with spears and pangas and were torn down.Thats the extent to which they believe in thiese things.
its sad because the rest of us that know its bs have to respect it since its their culture ,but the more people get infected the more chance there is that this will affect you or somebody you know.
Anyway thats just another view on it from this side of the world ( a cultural reaction instead of a scientific one)
It has nothing to do with infrastucture , it has everything to to with behavior and lack of education,aids still spreads wildly in africa,why? becuase the goverment refuses to educate the people on prevention,and even when they do people just dont listen.
a Big problem in africa even here in Rsa which is a bit more civilised i have littrally herd people say if i contract aids i will go to a Sangoma(witch doctor) and have it cured.they arent scared and even if the sangomas fail (like the government) they continue to believe.
example the lonmin mine disaster where almost a hundred miners were shot dead for charging at the police,it was later found out that a sangoma put muti(medicine magic) on them to make them invincible) they chared in with spears and pangas and were torn down.Thats the extent to which they believe in thiese things.
its sad because the rest of us that know its bs have to respect it since its their culture ,but the more people get infected the more chance there is that this will affect you or somebody you know.
Anyway thats just another view on it from this side of the world ( a cultural reaction instead of a scientific one)
zenboy, really, just stop posting
and as for risen's point, do people over there really still believe in all the sangoma stuff? if so, that explains the lack of understanding of how to combat this problem in the lower developed areas. i guess media and stuff have made us finally overlyaware of yet another disease that will finally get a vaccine, although it would do humanity a lot of good to research other diseases more frequently rather than just when an outbreak in an medc occurs.
and as for risen's point, do people over there really still believe in all the sangoma stuff? if so, that explains the lack of understanding of how to combat this problem in the lower developed areas. i guess media and stuff have made us finally overlyaware of yet another disease that will finally get a vaccine, although it would do humanity a lot of good to research other diseases more frequently rather than just when an outbreak in an medc occurs.
[19:59] <Lazors> man it's a good thing people don't see what i write here
". he deleted his post so I couldn't find the correct ID for it. perhaps if what he said was true or at least correct maybe it wouldn't matter but nope 
