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A Little Verified Info on Possible New Ebola Patient in Dallas: "A Low Risk Event"

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wrenchwench10/08/2014 2:11:47 pm PDT

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

CDC Director Dr Frieden said in this afternoon’s presser that travelers from West Africa are more at risk of arriving with malaria than ebola.

Nobody cares about Malaria, though.

The WHO estimates that in 2010 there were 219 million cases of malaria resulting in 660,000 deaths.[3][97] Others have estimated the number of cases at between 350 and 550 million for falciparum malaria[98] and deaths in 2010 at 1.24 million[99] up from 1.0 million deaths in 1990