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Ebola is deadly but malaria steals more lives

Discussion in 'Health Care' started by longknife, Sep 17, 2014.

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  1. longknife

    longknife New Member

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    Well, gee whiz. Is this “news”? Of course not! But our Doctor-in-Chief has decided it's in the US' “best interests” to get involved in ebola.

    As for malaria, it's carried by air borne insects that breed in swamps. All that is needed is an extensive surge of spraying these swamps with DDT to wipe them out.

    Gasp! DDT? What a horrid thought. Using a banned substance that scientists say is not really responsible for all the horrors claimed to it.

    Anyhow, read the article @ http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/9/16/ebola-is-deadly-butmalariastealsmorelives.html
     
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    The WHO estimates that in 2010 there were 219 million cases of malaria resulting in 660,000 deaths

    That means ~0.3% of those infected with malaria resulted in death (much less than the flu which is ~10.0% world wide on a good year). And of these deaths ~90% occurred in Africa because they lack the basic access to diagnose and treat it paired with an environment in which it thrives.

    Now imagine 219 million people being infected with Ebola where even with treatment it is unlikely you will survive.

    It's the difference between a ~90% mortality rate with treatment of a healthy individual infected with Ebola and a near 0% mortality rate with treatment of a healthy individual infected with Malaria.

    This is why it needs to contained.
     
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  3. waltky

    waltky Well-Known Member

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    ... drug sellers put profit ahead of patients...
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    Study: Drugmaker Profits Undermine Malaria Diagnosis in Nigeria
    September 08, 2015: Following a dramatic decline in malaria-related deaths between 2000 and 2013, World Health Organization data show more than 430,000 kids still die from the mosquito-borne infectious disease in Africa each year.
     
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    waltky Well-Known Member

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    No Rise in Malaria Seen in Pregnant Women Getting Iron Supplements...
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    No Rise in Malaria Seen in Pregnant Women Getting Iron Supplements
    September 09, 2015 | Many doctors recommend that pregnant women who suffer from anemia be given supplements to raise the level of iron, an essential nutrient, in their blood.
     
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    It was a "big deal" when they introduced the cure to the Market. The market invests in profit driven news, Fox News. Fox News scares people to death that the world is going to end. They buy buy buy the cure. It's no different than the bank bailout, they just learned who were the easy pushovers.

    It lost traction when people found out the USA had a patent on the disease. For most anyway. The rest are out there spreading information that will make another Corporation money by spreading Fox News Propaganda. Because that is what their non-American Media does.
     
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  6. longknife

    longknife New Member

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    Sigh. Another anti-corporation rant from an avowed leftist. Why am I not surprised?
     
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    Bluesguy Well-Known Member Donor

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    Feel free to start a drug company and then lose money selling the drugs for less than it cost to invent them and then produce them. Or invest your retirement money in drug companies and then write them letters urging them to lose that money.
     
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    It is estimated that 2.8 million people died from AIDs in 2005, and 570,000 of them were children--most from Africa. Seventy percent of all AIDs death are in Africa.
     
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    Anti-malaria efforts startin' to pay off...
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    Millions of children's lives saved as malaria deaths plunge -UN
    17 Sept.`15 - Rates of death from malaria have plunged by 60 percent in the past 15 years, meaning more than 6 million lives have been saved - the vast majority of them African children, United Nations agencies said on Thursday.
     
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    snakestretcher Banned

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    Exactly-and crucially Malaria isn't contagious.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Big Pharma is awash with cash. Trust me when I suggest that any loss incurred in developing a cheap drug would be more than adequately covered by their vast profits in other areas.
     
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    I have no reason to trust your unsupported assertions at all and how high a profit is a "vast profit", what percent? How about your socialized system doing its share in developing and producing these drugs and tax you to pay for them rather than expect we Americans to supply them to you at our loss.
     
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    snakestretcher Banned

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    Quarterly figures for Pfizer alone: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=f...OyT3eX-xwIVQ10eCh2PWQL9#imgrc=42_qtSKQKM0ChM:
     
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    Bluesguy Well-Known Member Donor

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    If you have a point to make, make it.

    Try again

    I have no reason to trust your unsupported assertions at all and how high a profit is a "vast profit", what percent? How about your socialized system doing its share in developing and producing these drugs and tax you to pay for them rather than expect we Americans to supply them to you at our loss.
     
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    You can thank the libs and greenies for all these deaths
     
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    snakestretcher Banned

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    You can read a financial statement/profit and loss account and work it out for yourself, can't you?
     
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    Casper Banned at Members Request Past Donor

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    The flu killed nearly 57,000 Americans in 2013, where is the panic?

    http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
     
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    snakestretcher Banned

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    What on earth are you talking about? Britain is always developing new drugs-or do you believe only America does? http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/4/10/e006235.full
     
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    Casper Banned at Members Request Past Donor

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    Do you just throw stuff against the wall hoping something will stick, sure looks like it.
     
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  20. waltky

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    CRISPR topped this year's Breakthrough of the Year list...
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    Breakthrough Technology Has Power to Stop Malaria
    January 02, 2016 | Gene-editing technology called CRISPR topped this year's Breakthrough of the Year list compiled by Science magazine.
     
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    Stuart Wolfe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Walt, do you spend your free time looking for dead threads to resurrect? :smile:

    Although I will admit, the potential cure for malaria is extremely good news. :thumbsup:
     
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    News? Yea. Horrid thought? Yea.

    Get ready for this and considering a massive conspiracy to hide a cure . . . so big pharma can make their bucks.

    http://www.naturalnews.com/041392_master_mineral_solution_malaria_cure_red_cross.html

    It's real. I've known it for years and used mms myself for other issues. It is safe if used with the protocol. Even then, hard to imagine a problem occurring without intent to create one.
     
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  23. waltky

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    Stuart wrote: Walt, do you spend your free time looking for dead threads to resurrect?

    No...
    :cool:
    ... I spend my time looking for threads...

    ... that relate to an article I've found that is of interest...

    ... based on previous posts I remember.

    I usually try to put them in smaller threads when I use the search function...

    ... so that it is easier to refer back to them if need be.

    Sometimes there may be a half dozen or more related threads.

    ... I really don't pay attention to the age of the thread...

    ... but to the title and how it relates to the material I'm posting.

    The information to be gleaned from the content...

    ... is more important than the date of the thread.
     
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    waltky Well-Known Member

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    Bill Gates, England announce funds to eradicate malaria...
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    Britain, Gates announce funds to eradicate malaria
    Tue, Jan 26, 2016 - British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and tech billionaire Bill Gates yesterday unveiled a plan to spend billions of pounds to eradicate “the world’s deadliest killer” malaria.
    See also:

    WHO Calls for Action to Tackle Threat of Emerging Diseases
    January 25, 2016 — The director-general of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, is calling for rapid action to tackle the growing threat of emerging diseases. At the opening of the agency’s week-long Executive Committee session, the WHO chief warned some major global health threats will demand urgent, collaborative action in the months ahead.
     
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  25. waltky

    waltky Well-Known Member

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    Lyme disease comes from deer ticks too...
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    Malaria parasite found hiding out in North American deer
    Feb. 5, 2016 - North America’s most popular game species, the white-tailed deer, harbors a secret: low levels of a malaria parasite that have only now been detected thanks to advanced DNA technology. Though this particular species of parasite poses little risk to humans, researchers say the find could reshape our understanding of malaria’s origins.
     
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