Hitching a ride with Ebola: opportunism
Care to buy “Ebola outbreak prevention” in the form of “5 Anti Microbial Essential Oils” that claim to be “capable of digesting or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms”?
Of course quackery flourishes regardless of epidemics. Hoping to lure the gullible or the desperate, people peddle products promising to do everything from curing cancer to reversing aging to helping you lose weight without diet or exercise. As the AIDS epidemic grew in the 1980s, so too did the nostrums that promised a cure.
Here are some useful resources:
Food and Drug Administration warning about fake Ebola treatments, and the FDA's role in fighting the disease.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Ebola site, including laws and definitions (isolation vs. quarantine), and levels of risk.
Pennsylvania's public health preparedness plan.
New Jersey's public health preparedness plan.
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