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The 17 neglected tropical diseases
The neglected tropical diseases result from four different causative pathogens:
Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease)
Onchocerciasis (river blindness)
Leprosy (Hansen disease)
Other neglected conditions:
Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM)
Nodding Syndrome (NS)
...the Ebola virus was Identified decades ago and it hasn't become airborne yet, so I doubt that it will spontaneously mutate at the drop of a hat. And there are still reported cases of the bubonic plague but we haven't seen an epidemic of that either despite the hundreds of years of mutations it could've gone through.
Let's get a few facts straight.
Ebola is a MANMADE biological weapon disease. It is not "natural" like the Bubonic Plague. This is something created in the laboratories of clandestine Superpower governments to be used against people of Africa, to continue the colonization movements of the 19th Century without dealing with the PEOPLE. ...
Unexpected Inheritance: Multiple Integrations of Ancient Bornavirus and Ebolavirus/Marburgvirus Sequences in Vertebrate Genomes
….In 19 of the tested vertebrate species, we discovered as many as 80 high-confidence examples of genomic DNA sequences that appear to be derived, as long ago as 40 million years, from ancestral members of 4 currently circulating virus families with single strand RNA genomes. Surprisingly, almost all of the sequences are related to only two families in the Order Mononegavirales: the Bornaviruses and the Filoviruses, which cause lethal neurological disease and hemorrhagic fevers, respectively. ....
....On one hand, I am hearing how difficult it is to transmit the current form of Ebola. That "experts" would have no trouble sitting next to an infected person on an airplane and that for transmission, direct contact with bodily fluids is required.
On the other hand, we are seeing doctors contracting Ebola whom are following safety practices and wearing full protective gear.
How is this happening? Where's the truth?
originally posted by: arjunanda
Doctors Without Borders Rock!!! We should All be helping these folks any way we can. These are truly Selfless and Empathetic Souls.
Although there is not a strain that infects humans that is airborne, the possibility that eventually there may be one is very real .
originally posted by: soficrow
a reply to: AnonymousCitizen
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is NOT part of the problem! They have been dealing with Ebola for decades - and NOT ONE of their people has ever got Ebola!