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US Scientists Predict Long Battle Against Ebola
An anonymous reader writes: Despite recent advances in medicine to treat Ebola, epidemiologists are not hopeful that the outbreak in west Africa will be contained any time soon. Revised models for the disease's spread expect the outbreak to last 12 to 18 months longer, likely infecting hundreds of thousands of people. "While previous outbreaks have been largely confined to rural areas, the current epidemic, the largest ever, has reached densely populated, impoverished cities — including Monrovia, the capital of Liberia — gravely complicating efforts to control the spread of the disease. ... What worries public health officials most is that the epidemic has begun to grow exponentially in Liberia. In the most recent week reported, Liberia had nearly 400 new cases, almost double the number reported the week before. Another grave concern, the W.H.O. said, is 'evidence of substantial underreporting of cases and deaths.' The organization reported on Friday that the number of Ebola cases as of Sept. 7 was 4,366, including 2,218 deaths." Scientists are urging greater public health efforts to slow the exponential trajectory of the disease and bring it back under control.
You'd be worried if you had ebola. It's most likely to kill you, and it 's a very painful and nasty death.
The cure is simple. Eat some black earth that smells fresh and is full of 4 billion years of evolution. They will read your thoughts. If you are good, they will fight the virus off in you. You can pray, or pet a cat, feed the birds, stuff like that. You tell me black earth is hard to come by in the desertifying Nigeria? Well, that's true, but it's not the Nigerians to blame the most, but global warming polluters around the world. It's still their kind, so them Nigerian black earth resident bacteria, or what used to be black earth, are obviously pissed at humans.