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Ebola returns with a vengeance : Comments

By Peter Curson, published 22/3/2019

We have developed a range of ebola vaccines, and while many remain to be fully tested or become widely available one has been found to be protective against ebola.

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If poverty forces folk to go hunt for their protein ration, then we need to attack poverty!

How?

By providing cheap reliable, dispatchable, power (walk away safe, clean, carbon-free, MSR thorium) even the most impoverished nations can afford.

And by implication, deionisation dialysis desalination and with it almost inexhaustible AFFORDABLE potable water.

Plus power to replace the wood fires that are the principal method of cooking food. And where scarce or unavailable, meat could be eaten raw?

It's raw meat and its consumption coupled to poor hygiene or lack of adequate absolution water that cause these outbreaks.

All too often the fights are tribal and over increasing drought ravaged grazing land that forces relocation by the affected to other folks marginal land and or illegal mining etc.

Moreover, almost every household in impoverished Africa is one where not only is there no washing machine but no power to run one if they came as hygiene assisting UNESCO gifts. Nor running potable water to use in them. [Or on the drought-ravaged family plot!]

Thus, half the population (females) spend their days fetching water, hand washing clothes, collecting firewood and preparing meals over open fires etc etc. where meat can be seared on the outside and still raw in the middle!

We could attack Ebola with the same Cooperation that ended both the threat of polio and smallpox?

But an impossible ask (cart before the horse) in regions of conflict and extreme endemic poverty!

How can we expect them to accept donated MSR thorium if it remains prohibited technology at home!? Simply to protect powerful vested interests like price-gouging, tax -avoiding, profit-repatriating, foreign entities!?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Friday, 22 March 2019 10:56:19 AM
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Meanwhile while Ebola gets press coverage the far more mass killing MALARIA remains forgotten:

The World Health Organisation "estimates that in 2015 there were 214 million new cases of malaria resulting in 438,000 deaths"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria#Epidemiology
Posted by plantagenet, Sunday, 24 March 2019 2:57:19 PM
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