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Originally Posted by forestgump99
A mosquito lands on an Ebola carrier (person) and sucks the blood from that person. Then the mosquito flys off and then lands on a non Ebola person and sucks the blood from that person. The mosquito is carrying the disease and infects the other person with its needle (the maxillae end in toothed blades) and thus infects the non-Ebola person. Much like Malaria.
That is how I imagine an Ebola outbreak.
Chikungunya, malaria, dengue fever all carried by skeeters..
The differences are WHY we need to expend resources THERE. We have to deal with the situation THERE because we don't want to deal with a different situation HERE.
The Liberians clearly DO listen. They have taken steps. Just because SOME of the people in Liberia, out of MILLIONS of people that live there, have acted irrationally, YOU take the position that ALL of the people in Liberia are fearful idiots. That's irrational on your part.
I think when we see video of the "hospitals" there, it's easy to form an opinion that the country is a hellhole. You're right that only a very small percent of the population has been infected. But the number of infections is rising exponentially.
Yeah, in my town which is majority black, many of them have jumped on this bandwagon. They seem to have forgotten how those white doctors were saving the lives of all those black patients.
It's a blood-borne pathogen (transmitted via contact with body fluids). It's not a vector-borne pathogen (transmitted via mosquitoes). We known this for decades.
Tell me doctor, when do you imagine the coming of a much more massive HIV/AIDS epidemic due to mosquitoes transmitting HIV from person to person? When is the mosquito driven Hepatitis epidemic coming?
Do you see Malaria outbreaks in the states? No you don't and there is no vaccine for that, but mosquitoes can carry malaria, yet no real outbreaks in the USA...hmmmm
The differences are WHY we need to expend resources THERE. We have to deal with the situation THERE because we don't want to deal with a different situation HERE.
The Liberians clearly DO listen. They have taken steps. Just because SOME of the people in Liberia, out of MILLIONS of people that live there, have acted irrationally, YOU take the position that ALL of the people in Liberia are fearful idiots. That's irrational on your part.
The Liberians in DALLAS didn't listen. One of Duncan's family members that was supposed to stay at home sent her child to school, for crying out loud!!
It's a blood-borne pathogen (transmitted via contact with body fluids). It's not a vector-borne pathogen (transmitted via mosquitoes). We've known this for decades.
Tell me doctor, when do you imagine the coming of a much more massive HIV/AIDS epidemic due to mosquitoes transmitting HIV from person to person? When is the mosquito driven Hepatitis epidemic coming?
The vector is human beings.
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