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your ebola can't touch me

First of all, economic incentives, while of course hugely important, are by far not the only incentive. Secondly, how would you give an economic incentive for any disease control center, organised in public, private or whatever form?

Killing the host, especially if its done rapidly, is a pretty "stupid" thing to do for any organism whose own survival is depending on the host.

Even in the article trying to make this particular mutations seem like a real possibility they add Of course it could happen, as could a bunch of other much worse scenarios, but it's still really unlikely, and would be unprecedented in human history.

Fucking Nigeria managed to contain Ebola in the slums of Lagos. I really doubt that Ebola will be a serious concern for developed countries lest it mutates.

And how exactly is a private disease control agency going to finance itself?

Meh, it's just a joke :D

In before Bjerknes "NBC is worse".

Thankfully.

The Le Pens :sergio:

If he were to live in Africa, odds are he wouldn't have access to adequate medical care ;) Yeah, you're right it's not new, but it still falls into the category of scary exotic killer virus :D

While such a disease is probably bound to appear a some point, what I think is really going to fuck us up in the foreseeable future with relative certainty are antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Well, just because you don't have to fear Ebola doesn't mean that you have to fear other diseases ;). Even if the flu or an Ecoli infection (I'm not sure if that counts as disease from a medical point of view but I digress) is much more likely to kill you, chances are still pretty low. I'm just...

If he were to live in Africa he'd have much more reason to be afraid of Ebola indeed, but it would still be wiser to primarily watch out for Malaria and Cholera and the likes. It's just that whenever there's something new and exotic, it gets hyped up to no end while the ordinary it pretty much...

There are dozens of diseases out there you are much more likely to contract and die of, not to speak of other nonviral health issues such as autoimmune diseases or cancer. We just have to try not being worried about the fact that any day our health may be gone, and minimise the risk thereof...

What? I didn't say anything about NBC really, just that there are other news media than them and zerohedge.

Because every source not zerohedge is automatically NBC and things such as BBC, times, Le Monde, Guardian don't exist :lol: