Originally Posted by goalie
Originally Posted by Buck_
Originally Posted by CrowRifle
Originally Posted by Buck_
Yup. No need to panic. Stress will kill a whole lot more people in this country in the coming years than ebola will.


I am sure the people that shared flights and came into contact with this guy share your your sense of calm.


Some will, some won't. Unfortunately, humans are lousy at risk assessment and emotions often trump rational thought.

CDC estimates that from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, flu-associated deaths ranged from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people. The flu is much more contagious. It's contagious before, during and after symptoms develop. The flu will kill many more people on this continent in the foreseeable future, but what are people panicking about? Ebola.



It's been a long time since the flu killed off tons of healthy, young people. Ebola, on the other hand, has a mortality rate of around 90% regardless of the health of the person getting it.

Apples, meet the oranges.....


To calculate the burden of 2009 pandemic influenza A (pH1N1) in the United States, we extrapolated from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Emerging Infections Program laboratory-confirmed hospitalizations across the entire United States, and then corrected for underreporting. From 12 April 2009 to 10 April 2010, we estimate that approximately 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (8868-18,306) occurred in the United States due to pH1N1. Eighty-seven percent of deaths occurred in those under 65 years of age with children and working adults having risks of hospitalization and death 4 to 7 times and 8 to 12 times greater, respectively, than estimates of impact due to seasonal influenza covering the years 1976-2001. In our study, adults 65 years of age or older were found to have rates of hospitalization and death that were up to 75% and 81%, respectively, lower than seasonal influenza.

Deaths
0-17 years ~1,270 ~900 to ~1,870
18-64 years ~9,420 ~6,700 to ~13,860
65 years and older ~1,580 ~1,120 to ~2,320

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