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Originally Posted by graciegirl
You are proceeding from an illogical premise based on inadequate information that is causing you to inaccuratly assess the situation and thus come to an incorrect conclusion.
Some people will die sooner due to heart disease and diabetes perhaps caused by poor diet, but 90 percent of people infected with the ebola virus will die.
Now the news is reporting that another person has come forward with symptoms of ebola who had been with Mr. Duncan.
AND I call on the administration in the WhiteHouse to do something more drastic than to monitor people for symptoms arriving from the three known countries with outbreaks of ebola. What if they spike a fever after they picked their nose and left it on your airplane seat.
This is serious stuff here and we have the opportunity if we act now to slow down the threat of an epidemic here..
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I don't think it's inadequate information:
Yearly deaths due to heart disease: 596,577
Yearly deaths due to cancer: 576,691
That's only the two major (yearly) causes of death in the U.S.
So 90% of people infected with Ebola will die. How many have died so far?
I don't recall even one. Has there been one death yet?
In the mean time, it's a lifestyle issue. Watch your intake of bodily fluids, the same as you would for HIV/AIDS.