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A Different Perspective On Ebola

    The World Health Organization has just reported that the number of Ebola cases in the current outbreak has topped 10,000 and that 4,922 have died of confirmed, suspected or probable cases of Ebola. This is horrible news and I can understand why so many are becoming worried about Ebola. We really do need to develop a vaccine for this disease.

    The other day, I was speaking with a military doctor and since we all know that thousands of our troops have been sent to Africa to deal with the Ebola outbreak, I asked him what he thought about it. He caught me by surprise when he said that while Ebola was a problem, there are diseases that are even worse and we have no cure for them.

    Here are five diseases that have an even greater need for vaccines than Ebola:

  • Annually, 207 million people get of Malaria (caused by mosquitoes) and it claims 627,000 lives.
  • 96 million people develop Dengue fever (also caused by mosquitoes) and 20,000 die each year.
  • 8.6 million will get Tuberculosis this year and this disease will claim the lives of 1.3 million people.
  • 4 million people will develop Influenza and it will claim 375,000 lives this year.
  • This year, 2.3 million will become infected by HIV and 1.6 million will die.

    Do the math and you’ll see there are 317.9 million cases of these five diseases each year and that 3.9 million deaths will occur. There are no vaccines for these diseases.

    When you compare those numbers with 10,000 cases of Ebola and 4,922 deaths, it makes you wonder why everyone is focused so much on Ebola. My guess is that you can’t get high TV ratings, sell newspapers or get elected by talking about mosquitoes, Tuberculosis, the flu or HIV.