So, what happened to ebola?

[Sheilbh]

Britain's got its first case.

Also, apparently, we fucked up in Sierra Leone compared to the French and the Americans. To an extent it was a government problem, to a far larger extent it was charities taking on work they really shouldn't have (Save the Children's been especially criticised).

[dps]

The media over-sensationalizes everything and Timmay eats it right up.  Nothing new there.

[The Brain]

If it had been iBola instead of eBola it would have been a bigger hit.

[celedhring]

The media over-sensationalizes everything and Timmay eats it right up.  Nothing new there.

I was surprised by how nobody close to the cases registered in the West (spouses, etc...) got infected. Looks like this thing isn't really *that* contagious until it gets to an advanced stage, so proper hospitalization, isolation, and corpse disposal procedures seem enough to significantly help containment.

[The Brain]

So medieval mumbo-jumbo isn't the best way??!?

[Viking]

White people stopped getting it and it became clear that it wasn't Obama's fault, so normal people and Fox news stopped caring.

[Eddie Teach]

The media over-sensationalizes everything and Timmay eats it right up.  Nothing new there.

Tim was keeping tabs long before American media cared.

[Admiral Yi]

Tim was keeping tabs long before American media cared.

American media cared before the first US case showed up and the cable channels went into 24 hour frenzy mode.  Take a look at the original ebola thread and Timmy's links.

[alfred russel]

The media over-sensationalizes everything and Timmay eats it right up.  Nothing new there.

The only exponential growth we get is in the volume of bullshit.

First, a bunch of projections get made by organizations that stand to get funding in the case of an expected crisis.

Second, the news media reports the most alarmist of those projections in order to generate clicks.

Third, Tim, who apparently scans every news article in the world, brings us only the most sensational of the news stories.

[Admiral Yi]

I don't think that's fair.  Part of the reason ebola didn't go full apocalypse is because of the over reaction.

[alfred russel]

I don't think that's fair.  Part of the reason ebola didn't go full apocalypse is because of the over reaction.

Maybe. But ebola has been around a really long time and hasn't gone full apocalypse yet. This isn't the first outbreak (even if the most serious). Most disease outbreaks stop short of full global armageddon, and that was true before modern medicine.

[Admiral Yi]

Most disease outbreaks stop short of species eradication because we do stuff about them.

[Eddie Teach]

Tim was keeping tabs long before American media cared.

American media cared before the first US case showed up and the cable channels went into 24 hour frenzy mode.  Take a look at the original ebola thread and Timmy's links.

Oh, I know they covered it, but until somebody popped up with it in the US it was always being treated as "shit happens in Africa".

[alfred russel]

Most disease outbreaks stop short of species eradication because we do stuff about them.

In this case, I'm not sure how it would have become an epidemic in first world countries. I'm also not sure that western aid was decisive in preventing a really serious African epidemic.

[Admiral Yi]

In this case, I'm not sure how it would have become an epidemic in first world countries. I'm also not sure that western aid was decisive in preventing a really serious African epidemic.

1. Thousands contract the disease in a few weeks.

2.  Half of them die.

3. ?

4. Profit?