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Topic: Are We Worrying About the Wrong Virus? = Ebola? (Read 2649 times)

b!z
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November 14, 2014, 05:47:08 PM
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Who not? It's a a real danger worldwide and there is no cure.

You're not wrong, but there are also many other real dangers worldwide without any current solutions. OP raises a good question: are we worrying about the wrong thing? Should we be worried about everything, or nothing at all?
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Who not? It's a a real danger worldwide and there is no cure.
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English <-> Portuguese translations
Worrying About the Wrong Virus = Ebola. I really worry about this, it is a disease  on the world.

But its not the only one deadly virus on the world. Thats the point.
And most important, Ebola is being severely secured and managed from his origin (Africa) by dozens of field medics.
legendary
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media only focuses on one thing at a time. plat du jour today is ebola, tomorrow will be terrorism, yesterday was FIFA World Cup. simple as that.

Close to 100% true. But that wasn't the point, really. The point was informing that media focus is either off, or it is criminally skewed.

The real point for everyone is, wake up and see that the media isn't the best place to go for info.

Another point would be, check into the dangerous viruses, not ebola. It isn't dangerous until you get it. And there are lots others you will get before you could ever think of getting ebola.

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b!z
legendary
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media only focuses on one thing at a time. plat du jour today is ebola, tomorrow will be terrorism, yesterday was FIFA World Cup. simple as that.
legendary
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While America's attention is on a disease in which there is only ONE confirmed case in the country, there have been 538 cases of Enterovirus D68, 5 deaths, and 10 cases of paralysis.

The enterovirus is an illness that is passed on like the flu or the common cold, and there are millions of cases per year, according to CDC estimates. However, there are hundreds of strains and this one - EV-D68 – is incredibly virulent.

Last week in New Jersey, a little boy died suddenly, with no previous signs of being ill. He just went to bed and never got up. A week later, an autopsy confirmed that he had died from Enterovirus D-68. This went all but unnoticed by the media as the nation focused on the single case of Ebola in Dallas.

Eli — a sweet, active, blonde-haired preschooler — had gone to sleep feeling fine, perhaps dreaming of playing with his sisters or having a fun day at school.

He didn't make it through the night.

Read more at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/10/daisy-luther/are-we-worried-about-the-wrong-virus/ .

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