Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly"
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Re: Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly"
#2This unfortunately won’t be news again until, and I think this is now an until versus if, we find evidence the disease is spreading uncontrollably outside the DRC.
Re: Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly"
#3This unfortunately won’t be news again until, and I think this is now an until versus if, we find evidence the disease is spreading uncontrollably outside the DRC.
I think that’s going to be true if any disease whose previous outbreaks were only in a “third world” place. The rest of the world easily ignores it. If it was contained but in let’s say - some European country - I bet it would be in the news 24/7 still.
Re: Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly"
#4This unfortunately won’t be news again until, and I think this is now an until versus if, we find evidence the disease is spreading uncontrollably outside the DRC.
I think that’s going to be true if any disease whose previous outbreaks were only in a “third world” place. The rest of the world easily ignores it. If it was contained but in let’s say - some European country - I bet it would be in the news 24/7 still.
You think an outbreak, in for example Belgium, would be 24/7 news in Demorcatic Republic of Congo?
Re: Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly"
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that’s going to be true if any disease whose previous outbreaks were only in a “third world” place. The rest of the world easily ignores it. If it was contained but in let’s say - some European country - I bet it would be in the news 24/7 still.
You think an outbreak, in for example Belgium, would be 24/7 news in Demorcatic Republic of Congo?
The DRC is a former Belgian colony, so yes.
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#7You are only infectious during illness and it requires contact with fluids. It's exasperated by local funeral rituals where people interact with the dead body and get infected.
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> headlines screaming apocalypse. Same bat country, same fear cycle
From the article "deaths reported at 177, and around 1,400 contacts now being traced". People are dying on the planet we all belong to.
Re: Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly"
#9This unfortunately won’t be news again until, and I think this is now an until versus if, we find evidence the disease is spreading uncontrollably outside the DRC.
I think that’s going to be true if any disease whose previous outbreaks were only in a “third world” place. The rest of the world easily ignores it. If it was contained but in let’s say - some European country - I bet it would be in the news 24/7 still.
If that outbreak was in a midsize European town like Marburg they would even name the virus after it.
Re: Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly"
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that’s going to be true if any disease whose previous outbreaks were only in a “third world” place. The rest of the world easily ignores it. If it was contained but in let’s say - some European country - I bet it would be in the news 24/7 still.
You think an outbreak, in for example Belgium, would be 24/7 news in Demorcatic Republic of Congo?
This is such a weirdly tilted and aggressive response, complete with Facebook style demand to prove some strawman nobody ever claimed.
Yes, outbreaks of extremely contagious and deadly disease often are major news stories in other countries, and yes western nations often ignore outbreaks in global south nations.