How Did a Childhood Disease Result into Killing Ebola Victims?
Not Everybody Agrees About Measles:
- Measles was described by Muhammad ibn Zakariya ar-Razi (860-932) or Rhazes – a Persian philosopher and physician, in the 10th century A.D. as a disease that is “more dreaded than smallpox”. Razes published a book entitled “The Book of Smallpox and Measles” (in Arabic: Kitab fi al-jadari wa-al-hasbah).
- news-medical.net
- According to the best evidence we have, measles makes its appearance somewhere between the 11th and 12th Centuries when the measles virus diverged (separated) from the rinderpest virus (a sort of measles of cattle that has been eradicated through vaccination). This probably happened when cattle herders spent just a little too much time with their cattle somewhere in the Middle East. historyofvaccines
- 1657 Measles Appears in Boston – In Boston, John Hull wrote in his diary that “the disease of measles went through the town,” but fortunately there were very few deaths.
- To date, 21 strains of the measles virus have been identified. While at Merck, Maurice Hilleman developed the first successful vaccine. Licensed vaccines to prevent the disease became available in 1963. An improved measles vaccine became available in 1968. wikipedia
Ebola and Measles:
Health workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have launched an urgent measles vaccination campaign in Ebola-hit regions, after almost 2,000 deaths from the preventable disease, two-thirds of them among children under five. […] At least 1,981 people died from measles in DRC this year, surpassing the 1,641 deaths from Ebola, according to the UN children’s agency, Unicef. The “unprecedented” humanitarian crisis is putting the health system under strain, UN staff said. theguardian
Observation: There have been 2000 deaths in the Congo from "measles" which would be a higher death toll than from Ebola, if so that would seem to be weaponised measles virus or not measles at all. It seems way too fatal to just be measles
Measles and Ebola: As the world anxiously monitors the outbreak of Ebola in Democratic Republic of the Congo, health officials note that a measles outbreak declared last month in the country has killed more people—mostly children—and faster. arstechnica
Why You Should Worry Less About Ebola And More About Measles iflscience . . . [what? why?]
Health workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have launched an urgent measles vaccination campaign in Ebola-hit regions, after almost 2,000 deaths from the preventable disease, two-thirds of them among children under five. […] At least 1,981 people died from measles in DRC this year, surpassing the 1,641 deaths from Ebola, according to the UN children’s agency, Unicef. The “unprecedented” humanitarian crisis is putting the health system under strain, UN staff said. theguardian
Observation: There have been 2000 deaths in the Congo from "measles" which would be a higher death toll than from Ebola, if so that would seem to be weaponised measles virus or not measles at all. It seems way too fatal to just be measles
Measles and Ebola: As the world anxiously monitors the outbreak of Ebola in Democratic Republic of the Congo, health officials note that a measles outbreak declared last month in the country has killed more people—mostly children—and faster. arstechnica
Why You Should Worry Less About Ebola And More About Measles iflscience . . . [what? why?]
Some Questions:
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WHY THE LINKING OF MEASLES TO EBOLA?
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