Anybody been keeping up with the number of ebola cases that have been reported? I just saw the number of cases was over 14000 now. http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/case-counts.html So it kind of looks like the number of new cases is still accelerating. Sure don't hear about it in the news much. Did Chaotic ever make his escape from Africa?
Oh, I catch a little CNN/Fox, google/yahoo news. Not seeing much other than a little about the doctor who just died...
I remember when HIV first surfaced back around 1983...It was only a disease between gay men. If you didn't live the "lifestyle" in San Francisco you didn't have anything to worry about. They got that wrong. Why put total faith that they have this virus totally understood? I say, keep it quarintined in Africa.....Bring all the health workers back for 21 days and keep them in Guantanitmo..nothing to lose there....
Wasn't Elizabeth Dole the head of the Red Cross back then, and didn't she put off testing all blood samples because she believed that very thing? Add one thing to the Gitmo deal - after the health care workers have come through, ship all the other detainees back to the sandbox to spread the good will to their fellow terrorist shithead buddies.
that's some interesting revisionist history. conflating popular ignorance with what the CDC understood about the virus at the time.
Go back and check the politics involved concerning banning gays from giving blood. It cost more than a few lives so feelings weren't hurt. Hemophiliacs didn't appreciate it. Common sense steps weren't taken early due to political correctness and legal maneuvering.
15113 as of Nov. 16th. I'm going to check on this once a week so I can plot the numbers to see if its still exponential growth.
And profit motive. While blood bank charities like the Red Cross charge a rate that covers expenses (to remain a charity) they can roll administrative cost, building rent, etc into that bill. Consider that ~25% of blood cost is due to testing. The almighty dollar had a bearing on the slow adoption of Aids testing. This article gives more insight into the blood market.
So Nebraska, Georgia, Texas, Virginia, New York so far. But thankfully my count guess is still way over as there has been I think 10-12 cases. Of course that is not true according to Alex Jones
