Rabies is a well known disease, but
still “55,000 people die every year from rabies”, many of these deaths in under
developed countries, such as the poorer parts of Asia. What angers some is that
the cost to cure rabies is about ten times the cost to vaccinate for rabies,
meaning the price of completely wiping out the disease would be less than to
continue treating people with rabies. Since many of the people who are infected
with rabies, “around 40%”, are under 15 years old, this should raise more alarm
than smaller diseases.
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| A cure could cost a lot less than vaccination |
The lack of funding for diseases
makes me angry, but the misrepresentation of diseases in the media makes me
even angrier. SARS killed only 775 people since 2006 (from Wikipedia) and it had huge coverage,
with everybody getting extremely afraid for their health over it, while rabies has,
as said before, over 50,000 people dying every year. The media, if anything,
should be trying to raise awareness of old diseases such as malaria and rabies
and trying to get the government to fund research on cures instead of covering
other, less important things. Since that we as a whole have the power to wipe
out rabies just through spending probably a fraction of the yearly US military
expenditure shows me that people don’t care about others welfare or the state
of the world, but rather are selfish and don’t care about
anything that doesn’t affect them.
Article Source
Experts’ anger over ‘invisible’
rabies death toll
May 26, 2014
Matt McGrath
BBC
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