The Media's Insane Reaction to Ebola

Now that the very few actual cases of Ebola in the United States have run their course, and the incubation period for anyone else is past, can we talk about the media reaction?

US Facing Ebola with No Surgeon General

Why don't we have a Surgeon General to shepherd us through a medical crisis like Ebola? Three guesses. . .

Ebola Comes to the US

Captain Trips is a bitch.

Oh, here we go. As a voracious reader of Robin Cook and Stephen King over the years, this is just the scary thing that resonates with me. I'm heartened that it's difficult to catch Ebola, and that its gestation is so fast that people don't go around as carriers for extended periods. That should keep it from becoming an epidemic here. But yikes, let's hope this is one time that truth is stranger than truth. Meanwhile, we can delight in how FOX News and Right Wing world will turn this into: a) President Obama's fault, and b) somehow a distraction from and related to Benghazi.

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First U.S. case of Ebola diagnosed in Texas after man who came from Liberia falls ill

A man who flew from Liberia to Dallas this month was diagnosed with Ebola on Tuesday, becoming the first person to board a passenger jet and unknowingly bring the disease here from West Africa, where it has killed thousands of people in recent months. . .

Read more at: Washington Post

Rush Limbaugh is Still a Big, Fat Pig, Part MCMLXXXVIII

With apologies to Senator Al Franken for stealing his title, Rush Limbaugh just seems to keep trying to outdo himself in piggishness. He's just disgusting.

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Rush Limbaugh: Liberals will politicize Ebola like they used AIDS to ‘undermine’ Reagan

Radio host Rush Limbaugh warned his listeners on Monday that liberals would make Ebola into a political issue and use it like they had used AIDS to “undermine” President Ronald Reagan. In an audio clip flagged by Media Matters, the conservative talker explained that he had received some complaints from listeners who said that he should not be spending time talking about the Ebola outbreak in Africa. . .

Read more at: Raw Story

Science is Cool: Potential Cure for HIV?

This could be huge.  Experts have always said that if HIV could be cured, many other diseases could be close behind. Let's hope so.

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Image from source, Huffington Post

Stem Cell Transplant Cures HIV In 'Berlin Patient'

On the heels of World AIDS Day comes a stunning medical breakthrough: Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure. . .

Read more at: Huffington Post

FOX "News" Anchor Gets H1N1 Swine Flu

Image from source, Examiner.com

I might find the hype about the swine flu somewhat overblown, but I don't believe it's a hoax. Some of the denizens of right-wing world do, some even coming up with elaborate conspiracy theories about it. So, what will these folks think when they find out someone from their very favorite TV channel has gotten the dreaded disease? Stay tuned. . .

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Major Garrett stricken with Swine Flu

Fox News White House correspondent Major Garrett reported ill for work last week and now we are learning why.

Major Garrett is the latest celebrity and, in particular, the latest news reporter to contracted the dreaded H1NI, alsoknown as Swine Flu. . .

Read more at: Examiner.com

Honeybees Dying. . .We're Next

Image from source, Guardian.co.UK

With all of the issues on our plate this election season, it's easy to forget that we're all gonna die. No, really! Bill Maher has been sounding the alarm for over a year about the honey bees. They're dying at alarming rates, and the hitch is, if the bees all die, we're not far behind.

Without bees, we have no pollination. Without pollination, we have no plants. And without plants, all the animals die. And yep, we're animals too. Please tell me somebody out there has a solution to this?

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Honeybee deaths reaching crisis point

Britain's honeybees have suffered catastrophic losses this year, according to a survey of the nation's beekeepers, contributing to a shortage of honey and putting at risk the pollination of fruits and vegetables.

The survey by the British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA) revealed that nearly one in three of the UK's 240,000 honeybee hives did not survive this winter and spring. . .

Read more at: Guardian.co.UK

Science is Cool: A Cure for HIV / AIDS?

Photo from source, KVUE

HIV/AIDS has been with us now for over 27 years, and every time it seems there might be a cure on the horizon, it somehow prevails. Now, doctors have a promising new way to combat the illness. Cross your fingers, everybody.

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Houston doctors say they may have found a way to destroy HIV

There is real hope that what’s happening in a Houston lab might lead to a cure for HIV.

“We have found an innovative way to kill the virus by finding this small region of HIV that is unchangeable,” Dr. Sudhir Paul of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston said. . . .

Read more (with video) at: KVUE

Hat-tip to Stupid Monkey Planet for the link.