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Rob_Zamora:
--- Quote from: [MAF]Agus on September 25, 2014, 05:50:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: [FSR]Ush on September 25, 2014, 11:59:25 am ---Ebola is scary
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Hmm not really, ebola is just media with its typical sensationalism, there's a lot more infectous diseases that cause many more deaths but they don't talk about it (although the thing with ebola is that it has a higher mortality rate than most of them, I admit that)
Example:
AIDS: As of 2012, approximately 35.3 million people have HIV worldwide with the number of new infections that year being about 2.3 million, and 1.6 millon people died from AIDS in that year.
Malaria: The World Health Organization estimates that in 2012, there were 207 million cases of malaria. That year, the disease is estimated to have killed between 473,000 and 789,000 people.
Ebola: As of 22 September 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local governments reported a total of 6,405 suspected cases and 2,984 deaths (3,546 cases and 1,757 deaths having been laboratory confirmed)
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Very good point Doc ;)
[FSR]Ush:
But you can't really prevent Ebola in a way you can prevent AIDS/HIV (condoms) or Malaria (pills). Touching eachother (a hug or handshake for example) is enough to get Ebola. And once you have it.. it's worse than AIDS/HIV I think, or at least it leads faster to a death. And malaria (once you live in the west) is easy to cure.
Ofcourse I know the media makes ebola bigger than it actually is. But imo that is due to the above reasons.
[MAF]Agus:
True, what I meant was that, even though it's more deadly and harder to prevent, it's not that half humanity has ebola, like the media (at least some) make it sound like :p
[MAF]Agus:
lol we'll look like the agressive hillbillies that once attacked them in the USA now
''Jeremy Clarkson and his Top Gear team were forced to flee Argentina and abandon three high-powered cars after they were pelted with stones by locals angered by the presenter’s number plate apparently referencing the Falklands War.
The crew of the BBC Two show had earlier been given an ultimatum by Argentine veterans of the war to leave the country or “face the consequences”.
They had provoked anger by using a 1991 Porsche 928GT coupé with the registration number H982 FKL, which politicians and army veterans suggested could be seen to refer to the Falklands conflict.'' (War was in 1982 and FKL = Falklands, in case someone wonders)
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It's interesting to see the massive ammount of things I'm seeing about this on internet, and 99.5% of the comments I read are against Top Gear. The problem is that people here don't see Top Gear (In in fact I am the only person ''I know'' in real life that watches Top Gear, or even knows what it is), so they probably don't know that they do these kind of things with every country they go to. Plus, of course, we are not exactly the most civilized country on earth :'(
Żurrieq:
95% alcohol...damn :o
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/nicole-bicknell-teenager-dies-after-4641206?ICID=FB_mirror_main
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