There is a disease that is of such importance, so devastating that it demands our attention. Ok… I know this is relatively ‘old news’ but a comment about this is still, I feel, relevant. It caused Texas to shut down its high school sports and Texas doesn't make stupid decisions. What I am on about… if you have not already guessed, is Swine Flu of course. Now the death toll of this swine flu (Apr 2009) are catastrophic, 20 already sick and elderly Mexicans out of a population of 20 million died from this bacon-flavoured plague, that means you have a 1.0 x 10-6 chance of death from swine flu.
Each day 3,000 children die of malaria.
3,000 children die a day so there must be a global outcry with public pressure to curb these fatalities. Surely drug manufacturers must be pulling out all the stops to find a cure for this? Naw, this is a disease of the developing nations. This is a disease of the poor. It does not affect the well off ‘developed’ nations, and after all, now much profit would the drug companies get for supplying drugs for a disease of the poor?
