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If we go to: Funding and Spending - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria We can see that at least $1 billion/year is spent fighting malaria for a disease that has 0.6M deaths/207M episodes. (about a 0.3% death rate). Ebola has a death rate of >50%. This means if millions of...

So you don't think the genocide in Rwanda was a problem? Just trying to get a measure of your morality.

Last weekend I did some epidemiological calculations of what could happen if the response to the Ebola crisis continues to be slow. I was horrified to find that from 100,000 to 1 million could die, and that each day of delay will cost an extra 1,000 to 10,000 lives lost in the next 6 months...