First Ebola Case is Diagnosed in the U.S., CDC Reports

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43. Do you really believe that?

That the many doctors and other health care workers who have died or put themselves in grave danger in countries whose population distrusts western medicine are doing that for money?

You have a very tall mountain to climb to convince me about that argument.

Ebola outbreaks are quite rare, and the virus is too efficient for its own good. Untreated, over 90% are dead within a week of symptoms showing. Even with treatment, over 50% will die. Plus, it is only transmitted via bodily fluids. It is not airborne and is highly unlikely to ever become so.

If Ebola comes to the USA, it will be swatted like a fly. Why? Because the USA (mostly) trusts western medicine which knows how to treat this disease. Unfortunately there is no cure yet. But the USA has a medical infrastructure to contain any outbreak here, and other than the anti-medicine loonies -- cough! Jenny McCarthy, Oprah, RFK Jr., Dr. Oz, Andrew Wakefield -- has a population that trusts scientific medicine.