The CDC says
HIV is not spread by day-to-day contact in the workplace, schools, or social settings. HIV is not spread through shaking hands, hugging, or a casual kiss. You cannot become infected from a toilet seat, a drinking fountain, a door knob, dishes, drinking glasses, food, cigarettes, pets, or insects. HIV is not spread through the air, and it does not live long outside the body.
The WHO now says Ebola can very well spread in most of those ways.
So why is the CDC bringing two infected American health workers from Africa to the US and why are they telling us not to fear a sweeping epidemic if the disease makes it to the US or any other rich country outside Africa, the mother continent of all horrors?
Brave doctors risking our lives to show they are not racists, they are not selfish, blah, blah, blah?
One hopes part of the rationale is the role such patients could play in efforts to find a vaccine.
Or is that just silly?
Anyway, if the WHO is right then the whole world needs this to be stopped in its tracks.
Outbreak.
NIH to test vaccine
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