MBIO 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ebola Virus Disease, Smallpox, Treponema
9 Feb 2017
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Correction from last lecture - treponema causes yaws not salmonella. About 1. 5 mil to 3 min people die of malaria every year (85% of these occur in africa) accounting for about 4-5% of all fatalities in the world. One child dies of malaria somewhere in africa every 20 sec. and there is one malarial death every 12 sec somewhere in the world. Malaria kills in 1 year what aids killed in 15 years. In 15 years, if 5 million have died of aids and 50 million have died of malaria. Story: guy who found a cure for malaria - got millions of dollars from the us government to fund his research. His cure only blocked a particle of malaria, did not help many people. Aids is funded more than malaria - due to rst world having more aids. No ebola in canada - we spend lots of money (20 million) on research for ebola because people fear another outbreak.
