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>> However, in the past five years snakebites have received $83m in funding for research and development, compared with $1.65bn in similar funding for Ebola, w
by MichaelRo 2y ago
>> However, in the past five years snakebites have received $83m in funding for research and development, compared with $1.65bn in similar funding for Ebola, which has killed far fewer people.
Well. Interesting article, unfortunately ending with the dumbest sentence.
Ebola presents a real threat to become a pandemic. Snake bites do not. Hence, the difference.
- MichaelRo 2y agoForgot to put it in an ironic way. So they don't fund Ebola studies thus when the pandemic strikes and wipes out 90% of the wold population, they will be held accountable, so this conversation happens: - What did you do with all those money we funded you?! - Well, we spent them on snake bites. So in the event you get both Ebola and a snake bites you, you'll die, but it won't be the snake bite that killed you.