It's too bad for many we don't have some hysteria about that, of course, if it isn't going to kill a few million of us it's no big deal.
I read a great quote about Tuberculosis the other day: "TB is Ebola with wings."
If you consider the growing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant TB, particularly in Russia and eastern Europe, and the kind of havoc it could wreak here in North America, that's not far from the truth.
Resistant TB in Russia is killing 80-90% of infected persons, but it doesn't do so in days like Ebola does, and it doesn't come from Darkest Africa, so we don't get hysterical about it.
Oh, well. One of these days I'll be able to say with a smug attitude, "I told you so." Unless I'm already dead, of course.
