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To elaborate.....
Rates of death from measles were declining until vaccines became common for the disease:
One hundred years ago in Scotland, the measles case-fatality rate was 30–40 deaths per 1000 cases [208]. In the United States, mortality from measles decreased from 25 per 1000 reported cases in 1912 [209, 210] to 1 per 1000 reported cases in 1962 [211]. In New York State, measles mortality decreased by >15-fold long before the introduction of measles vaccination (figure 2) [212]. US and UK case-fatality rates were ∼1 per 1000 reported measles cases from the 1940s through the 1980s
http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/conten...ment_1/S4.full
... lag-adjusted PFC (Proportion of Fatal Cases) over time for Ebola in West Africa. The lag-adjusted PFC - about 80-85%...
http://www.healthmap.org/site/diseas....67OA2x2g.dpuf
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https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images...d5_bigger.jpeg Crawford Kilian @Crof 3h3 hours ago
WHO #Ebola update for February 3: 22,444 cases, 8,959 deaths
http://bit.ly/1zbrjtG
Guinea: 2,975 cases (+16); 1,944 deaths (+7).
Liberia: 8,729 cases (+61); 3,739 deaths (+29).
Sierra Leone: 10,740 cases (+33); 3,276 deaths (+2).
World totals: 22,444 cases (+110); 8,959 deaths (+38 )
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Measles kills a lot more people each year than Ebola. It also is much more contagious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles
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https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images...d5_bigger.jpeg Crawford Kilian @Crof 8m8 minutes ago
WHO #Ebola update, February 6: At least 22,525 cases, 9,004 deaths
http://bit.ly/16pNbpB
So here are the increasingly dubious numbers:
Guinea (February 3): 2,988 cases; 1,957 deaths.
Liberia (February 1): 8,745 cases; 3,746 deaths.
Sierra Leone (February 3): 10,792 cases; 3,301 deaths.
World totals: 22,525 cases; 9,004 deaths.
