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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
WHO: Ebola Is Modern Era's Worst Health Emergency
2014-10-14
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] The World Health Organization called the Ebola outbreak "the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times" on Monday but also said that economic disruptions can be curbed if people are adequately informed to prevent irrational moves to dodge infection.
It's worse than typhoid, typhus, cholera, and smoking combined.
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, citing World Bank figures, said 90 percent of economic costs of any outbreak "come from irrational and disorganized efforts of the public to avoid infection."
"Disorganized" is maybe so, but I don't see what's irrational about trying to avoid being infected with a disease that's usually fatal.
Staffers
To whit, bureaucrats...
of the global health organization "are very well aware that fear of infection has spread around the world much faster than the virus," Chan said in a statement read out to a regional health conference in the Philippine capital, Manila.
So we should give the mortality rate time to catch up? That's rational?
Posted by:Fred

#12  My sister-in-law was in NJ for a wedding over the weekend. She and her husband went to The Peasant Grill in Hopewell, N.J. to get something to eat. Who should be there but Dr. Nancy Snyderman, NBC TV doctor (who violated a self-imposed quarantine. Her cameraman is the one who contracted ebola.) My sister-law-was explaining to my wife on the telephone that they spotted Dr. Nancy Snyderman eating a-bowl-a soup. (This just rolled out during the conversation. You can't make it up. Drum roll?)

The Peasant Grill is famous for its soup. Another stupid true story in the annals of liberalism.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-10-14 22:33  

#11  "Let's Move!"
Posted by: Frank G   2014-10-14 19:03  

#10  "...but...but...but...What about Global Warming..er I mean Climate Change?" Jean Francois Kerry claims this is our greatest threat....I'm sooooo confused"
Posted by: Warthog   2014-10-14 15:32  

#9  BINGO, #3 Airandee!
Posted by: Barbara   2014-10-14 13:09  

#8  Is it time to drag out my favorite line from
The Masque of the Red Death: "And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
Posted by: regular joe   2014-10-14 11:23  

#7  I always thought Modern Era's Worst Health Emergency is stupidity of the credentialed classes.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-10-14 09:21  

#6  ...This is unpossible. We have been told REPEATEDLY that smoking/obesity/gun control are the
"the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times". Clearly someone is lying about something.

/sarcOFF/

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2014-10-14 09:13  

#5  
Posted by: Whulet Shavins7256   2014-10-14 07:46  

#4  Based on budget priorities lesbi@n obesity is a worse health emergency. Along with hundreds of other CDC & NIH programs.
Posted by: Glenmore   2014-10-14 07:26  

#3  Let me guess the solution: world taxes, less capitalism, free immigration from country to country, socialize all energy production.....
Posted by: Airandee   2014-10-14 06:43  

#2  The 'economics' don't matter a great deal if one does not survive the emergency. Survival really is key.

Reassuring to note we've now got the World Bank on the case, or have they been involved from the onset? The World Bank's 'Child Spacing' concept really never has caught on.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-10-14 05:19  

#1  "the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times"
I would think global unwanted pregnancies, AIDs, genital multilation(M&F), clean water, famine and ignorance rank pretty high, in modern times.
Posted by: Skidmark   2014-10-14 02:19  

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