RMIThe Economics Of Ebola, Or Why There’s No Remedy
The basic answer, as Beth Skwarecki of PLoS.org explains, can be found in economics. The Ebola virus doesn’t rank as a major illness. As the going along with chart shows, measles strikes about 20 million individuals a year and eliminates more than 120,000; cancer adds 14.1 million cases a year and eliminates 8.2 million; HIV contaminates 2.5 million people a year and kills 1.7 million. (The cancer stats are from 2012 and the HIV numbers from 2011.)The existing outbreak of Ebola numbered 1,323 cases and 729 fatalities.
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