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Ebola reached phillipines and morroco. Is it happening?
Created 4th August 2014 @ 11:17
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I don’t know, for me the first and biggest message I got from this Ebola outbreak is that people really don’t give a shit about Africa. When those two American doctors got infected they brought them into the US, gave them an experimental treatment which miraculously worked, and it seems to be the first advance towards a legit treatment for this disease. Meanwhile 700 or so people died in Africa and it seems no one gives a shit until 1. Western people get infected 2. it gets out of Africa
it’s kinda sad
MDRs are usually quite boring, annoying, but boring. Stuff like MRSA is mostly a problem in hospitals (post-op sepsis). MDR TB is an exception, that one’s quite interesting.
High lethality isn’t what a pathogen “wants”, it won’t gain anything by evolving to be more deadly. So outside of bioweapons a successful mutation in that direction is unlikely.
I’m more afraid of the stuff that hasn’t adapted to humans yet. Few infections, hard to treat (-> no money in developing a treatment), high lethality. Stuff like Ebola. The only thing preventing Ebola from fucking shit up is the transmission. With a ZEBOV-strain where indirect transmission isn’t out of question anymore we’re really close that.
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I don’t know, for me the first and biggest message I got from this Ebola outbreak is that people really don’t give a shit about Africa. When those two American doctors got infected they brought them into the US, gave them an experimental treatment which miraculously worked, and it seems to be the first advance towards a legit treatment for this disease. Meanwhile 700 or so people died in Africa and it seems no one gives a shit until 1. Western people get infected 2. it gets out of Africa
it’s kinda sad
Are you suprised that America gives shit about it’s citizens though?
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I don’t know, for me the first and biggest message I got from this Ebola outbreak is that people really don’t give a shit about Africa. When those two American doctors got infected they brought them into the US, gave them an experimental treatment which miraculously worked, and it seems to be the first advance towards a legit treatment for this disease. Meanwhile 700 or so people died in Africa and it seems no one gives a shit until 1. Western people get infected 2. it gets out of Africa
it’s kinda sad
While the main thrust of your point is probably true enough, the thing with the serum was that it was untested. The two infected Americans were medically trained, and were thus able to give informed consent to having the serum tested on them. That’s the official line, anyway.
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I don’t know, for me the first and biggest message I got from this Ebola outbreak is that people really don’t give a shit about Africa. When those two American doctors got infected they brought them into the US, gave them an experimental treatment which miraculously worked, and it seems to be the first advance towards a legit treatment for this disease. Meanwhile 700 or so people died in Africa and it seems no one gives a shit until 1. Western people get infected 2. it gets out of Africa
it’s kinda sad
I know I am going to be called a “conspiracist idiot” but MAYBE just MAYBE America was testing some nasty stuff on the africans which was the reason they don’t give a single shit?
Drugs are being tested on indians, why shouldn’t the bio-weapons be tested on the africans?
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Quoted from CHERRY
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Are you suprised that America gives shit about it’s citizens though?
No, I’m surprised at the entire world’s hypocrisy towards a region that they have been “trying to help” overcome massive problems of famine and disease for decades, with largely disappointing results. (I wonder why)
Quoted from Goreston
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While the main thrust of your point is probably true enough, the thing with the serum was that it was untested. The two infected Americans were medically trained, and were thus able to give informed consent to having the serum tested on them. That’s the official line, anyway.
Yeah, I understand. I don’t think it would be unethical to have brought that serum to Liberia/Sierra Leone and test it on people who probably don’t stand a chance of surviving otherwise, though. Maybe now that they have two success cases they will be more inclined to do so, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
Quoted from Max
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I know I am going to be called a “conspiracist idiot” but MAYBE just MAYBE America was testing some nasty stuff on the africans which was the reason they don’t give a single shit?Drugs are being tested on indians, why shouldn’t the bio-weapons be tested on the africans?
Yeah, who really knows at this point. I’m pretty sure America/Europe see Africa as a commodity. Lots of natural resources with easily manipulable governments and people that are too famished and diseased to revolt. African friends of mine have commented that sometimes it seems that colonization never ended, it just evolved.
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Quoted from ondkaja
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HAHAHA STEALING GDP!!!
BREAKING NEWS: GDP bandits strike again, stealing thousands of GDP.
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TF2 is already dead. So there is nothing to worry about.
youre all fucking idiots.
how is it that you are so up-to-date on other people’s sexual activities T0m??
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youre all fucking idiots.
british master race doesn’t give a fuck about viruses
muh nhs
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how is it that you are so up-to-date on other people’s sexual activities T0m??
ladders and night time are a good combination
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