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In reply to the discussion: Mob Destroys Ebola Center In Liberia Two Days After It Opens [View all]tavalon
(27,985 posts)We know how to contain this but it's unreasonable,unconscionable. We could probably airlift emergency supplies to quarantined areas but if you are in that area, you have a very strong likelihood of getting Ebola and the death rate is the usual 80-90 percent.
The "cure" for Ebola, since it is so fast acting is to get it away from populous areas through quarantine and as awful as it sounds, death watches. Burn out the virus. It sounds so reasonable until you realize what that really means.
No one paid much attention when it was little villages being decimated and that's been going on a long time (decades at least). Nothing has changed about Ebola except it got lucky and found a populated area. Now, it's big news. But the cure is still the same as before.
Horrific, but it's all we have.