Posted on 12/15/2014 4:38:51 AM PST by wtd
"Does Kaci Hickox, the Maine nurse who cared for Ebola patients in West Africa, have a case against Maine's quarantine restrictions? World Health Organization's Lawrence Gostin discusses. Cuomo: Health Workers in …"
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"less than one in one thousand in those nations have contracted the disease. However, that is NOT good news. It simply means that there remains a huge population yet to be infected with nothing standing in the way of their becoming infected."
I, too, was thinking that the outbreak will not continue at the same rate once the population has been "played out." However, at "less than one in one thousand" infected, with your gold mine analogy in mind, we are still very close to the surface; lots of easy pickings still to be had. I respectfully disagree that "Ebola is winding down." On the contrary, in my opinion, it is just getting started.
Ebola is not random. Epidemics tend to act like wildfires, that may destroy an area with little fuel while bypassing a rich fuel area. They also tend to lose a lot of potential infections with local dead ends.
Were Ebola a real threat, by now casualties should be in the tens of millions and it should be all over the world, not just Africa. It would be comparable to the speed and intensity of a flu season.
Ebola may be ‘winding down’ as you say, however, the reports of demands for increased aid and support are ramping up. There have been recent reports of investigations of fraud related to the distribution of Ebola aid/finances. Opportunistic vultures are circling for every last bit of redistributed wealth they can seize.
And keep in mind that these numbers are generally acknowledged to 3 or 4 times lower than the actual numbers. But you are completely right. Nothing is stopping Ebola as of yet. It's expanding at about the same rate as always. The ONLY thing different is the reporting...or lack of same....from American media.
This is a very old report. If you watch the video, you’ll learn that this is from the time that Pham was in the hospital.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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