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kleinbl00  ·  3731 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Update on ebola

It's a little more complicated than that. It's not just about funeral rights, it's about appalling hygiene and little-to-no public health. Cholera has killed 4 times as many people in Haiti over the past four years as Ebola has killed in West Africa and we've had treatments for cholera for a hundred years or more.

Yeah, there's ignorance and distrust to magnify the effects of 3rd world sanitary conditions, but there's also 3rd world sanitary conditions. The WHO wants a half-billion dollars to deal with the situation. For perspective, that's 1,1000th what Japan got after the Tsunami.

But it's a country full of brown people that lick their dead or whatever and since they have no oil or diamonds, we're mostly concerned with the ook factor. Besides, $500m gets you about one and a half of these: