Obama made Ebola the subject of his weekly address. He emphasizes some unique concepts: Science and facts.
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Since yesterday's post, several people have asked me on various social media outlets about the airborne nature of Ebola.
As an unprecedented outbreak of Ebola crosses borders in West Africa, people are asking new questions about the virus and its potential to turn into a global pandemi
In the earlier days of the West African Ebola outbreak, it was not uncommon to hear people note that we should not panic about Ebola because, after all, far more people are killed from Malaria than Ebola. This is of course an irrelevant argument.
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That Bush-with-a-tan is a tool.
I'll sit here and try to do my best not to entertain outrageous conspiracy theories. (not really).
As someone who was absolutely captivated and horrified reading Richard Prestons' book The Hot Zone' on Marburg and ebola in a local bookshop - to the point of missing my bus home a few times; this :
http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2014/10/21/the-hot-zone-and-the-mytho…
& from there this :
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/books/the-hot-zone-author-tracks-ebol…
Especially this :
(Emphasis added.)
Seems Preston is now siding with you, Greg Laden which is kinda nice to know.
Also if I may I (mostly) agree with what Jim Wright on the Stonekettle Station blog has to say about ebola - and a whole lot more here :
http://www.stonekettle.com/2014/10/ebola-and-it-goes-like-this.html
WARNING : SWEARING and offensive language.
For those who haven't already stumbled on that one. Hope this is okay Greg Laden, my apologies and feel free to delete if not.
NB. Some credit too goes to PZ Myers 'Pharyngula' which was where I discovered the link to Tara C. Smith's 'Aetiology' blog article linked above.