http://blog.sermo.com/2014/09/29/ebola-update-1-4-million-possible-infections-and-the-press-is-finding-it-harder-to-get-answers/ Talk Real World Medicine Mon, 23 Mar 2015 13:00:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 http://blog.sermo.com/2014/09/29/ebola-update-1-4-million-possible-infections-and-the-press-is-finding-it-harder-to-get-answers/#comment-244 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:56:35 +0000 http://blog.sermo.com/?p=2012#comment-244 Excellent update on Ebola. Hopefully, something stops this before it spirals more out of control.

]]> http://blog.sermo.com/2014/09/29/ebola-update-1-4-million-possible-infections-and-the-press-is-finding-it-harder-to-get-answers/#comment-243 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:22:21 +0000 http://blog.sermo.com/?p=2012#comment-243 Excellent point BigZig, and we’re hearing reports from West Africa that the number of malaria deaths are up because those that need care can’t find it because the clinics are overwhelmed with Ebola.

]]> http://blog.sermo.com/2014/09/29/ebola-update-1-4-million-possible-infections-and-the-press-is-finding-it-harder-to-get-answers/#comment-242 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:20:16 +0000 http://blog.sermo.com/?p=2012#comment-242 i don’t think that the medical community is panicking; i think that the general polulation is. it has been reported (http://www.who.int/gho/malaria/epidemic/deaths/en/) that in 2012, 670,000 people worldwide died from malaria. that’s HUGE compared to ebola, and the malaria deaths have been ongoing for a very long time. #perspective.

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