Putting things in perspective

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It's time to put things in perspective on Ebola.

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Ebola is certainly a terrible disease and it is very important that we get it under control. To put things in perspective however, the World Health Organization just released its 2014 Global Tuberculosis Report, which shows that 9 million people developed tuberculosis in 2013 and 1.5 million of them died.

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Ebola, health blog, tuberculosis
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  • Created By: Nathaniel Barnwell
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: May 24, 2016 - 7:37am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 11:21pm