Reply To: Stopping diseases

000646 -“The blood came from an estimated 170,000 Haitians- any number of which could have been carrying HIV which by that time (unknown to anyone then) was prevalent in Haiti.

By the early 1980s when HIV was noticed in certain populations in the USA this thing was far beyond control. It wasn’t just a few thousand people that had to be tested and it wasn’t in a small area.

You should really read a bit about the subject of zoonotic diseases. It’s a fascinating subject and you should stop talking down to people who disagree with you when you aren’t familiar with the topic being discussed.”

Your implications are false. Read this history about HIV:

“Abstract

A seroepidemiological survey has been carried out in the Veneto region to determine the prevalence of HTLV-III and HTLV-I antibodies in subjects at risk for development of AIDS and related conditions. Serum samples were tested by ELISA and, for confirmation, by radioimmunoassay (Western blot), using disrupted virus as antigen. The results show that 22 out of 112 hemophiliacs had antibodies against HTLV-III; however disaggregation of data resulted in 22.6 and 77.8% positivity for patients with severe forms of hemophilia A and B, respectively. Two patients with hemophilia A and two with hemophilia B were positive for antibodies to HTLV-I. The prevalence of HTLV-III antibodies in the homosexual and intravenous drug abuser groups was 52 and 33% respectively. No positive cases for antibodies to HTLV-I were found in homosexuals, while 4.3% seropositivity to HTLV-I was observed in drug abusers. Among patients suffering from various pathologic conditions not strictly AIDS related, only 1 with generalized non-Hodgkin lymphoma was positive for HTLV-I antibodies. In a further group of patients with clinical diagnosis of LAS and AIDS, antibodies to HTLV-III were found in 90 and 100% respectively, while seropositivity for HTLV-I was observed only in 6.4% of LAS patients. The implications of these findings are discussed, particularly in view of the potential oncogenic effect possessed by HTLV-I.”

If they wanted to control it – they could have, but it wasn’t PC. Now in the US we have over a million people with AIDS.

“Regarding Ebola if a Travel Ban would not effectively keep Ebola out of the USA then it does not reduce the danger to American citizens.”

It would stop many cases here. Those lives aren’t important, right? Now you for sure sound like you work for the Gov.!