This news story in today's Science magazine (based on a research report published online) appears to be open access, at least for now.  It's well worth reading.

You wonder how this world is ever going to take action on long term problems like global warming when we just sit back and wait until the first case of Ebola ends up in a populated US city. That area of the world needs to be seriously quarentined and shut off now. As the Ebolo virus mutates there is the chance it will become even more adapted to being passed from host to host- us. If it ever develops the ability to be caught through the air we are in deep deep dodo.

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Replace turf grass with native plants that don't need irrigation and synthetic fertilizers or chemicals that can go into our waterways and ocean

That's called racial profiling, and their students coming over here are to be tested, wait for the uproar on that!

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Romans 8;18-32 John 3;16-18

Ebola in Liberia??

 

Hope it doesnt make it to Tamarindo!!

My mom's doctor says the leading cause of death among his patients is flu, almost always in people who haven't taken the vaccine.  He thinks it's about as nasty a way to die as Ebola.

Flu is far more communicable than Ebola.  While the vaccines aren't anywhere near perfect (better ones are probably on the way), they've greatly reduced the chance of a terrible epidemic like 1918.

In the US, modern medical facilities make it easy to contain Ebola.  It's not a risk to us, and there's no need to ban travel.  Some other countries do need to take precautions.  Nigeria, for example, is vulnerable.  

Asinine!!
The death rate from the flu is well less than 1%

Among the elderly, it's far higher.  The physician is a pulmonologist.  He was emphatic about the seriousness of flu, and that it's an awful way to die.  

And smoking related deaths in the US are around 480,000 per year!

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Ah, religion, bigotry dressed up as morality.

Hot lead poisoning in Chicago is at an all time high; need cold lead.

In places like Chicago, old lead paint and old lead plumbing may still be causing mental disability (and violence) if not, directly, deaths.  

Getting lead out of paint and gasoline and removing lead water pipes (they were actually popular a century or more ago) has been a spectacular public health success.  The evidence is sketchy, but reduction in lead coincides with reduced violence in the US.  Unfortunately, the lead cleanup came many years after the public health hazard was well known.  The paint industry defended white lead pigment ferociously (for what it's worth, northeast Florida produces a lot of titanium for paint pigments and sunscreen).  

As long as it's not Liberia, Costa Rica..I'm ok with it!! :0

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Ah, religion, bigotry dressed up as morality.

cheetahs comment went right over your head ,ww. try again.

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Water dissolving...and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean

Getting near "out of control".

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Dora Hates You

Statement from the World Health Organization, Monday.  The Ebola epidemic is terrible and getting worse.  

 

The hype reminds me of HIV around 1985.

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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

"Hype" is not a good word to use. Yes, Ebola is transmitted by "contact", so it does not seem to be such a "threat". But, , , , what if there had been an infected person, or two, at the recent "rave" at the PORT?

As far as AIDS/HIV back in the early 1980's, , , , it could have been a lot worse, , , , the "powers-that-be" were ready to go to "freak out" mode before more was found out about it. Discussions at the "top" were held within "Above Top Secret" conditions.

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Dora Hates You

hype
h?p
informal
1. extravagant or intensive publicity or promotion.

I think it's appropriate. Yes, Ebola is a concern. But it's not the boogieman that the media is (or was) making it out to be. Like I've said before, resistant bacteria is a much greater threat to us.

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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

There's a respiratory virus going around in the Midwest among kids that is a concern for us here; you can google it.  Ebola is a huge concern in W. Africa and I think the WHO is trying to publicize it to get help from richer countries.  Which they should to get it under control; we should help them (yes I know our volunteer organizations are, and those folks are amazing heroes IMO).

BTW, insider hearsay again, lol.

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A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Adult flu deaths aren't really tracked.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/d...lu-related_deaths.htm



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I was right.

That children's respiratory sickness is creepy, 30 kids from one school ended up in the ICU.

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I was right.