The
obvious unanswered question is ‘Can Ebola be contracted sexually?’
Will sex tourist of Africa take Ebola to the melting flesh-pots of
the world? Alternatively, if Ebola is just a viral pool of blood,
vomit etc. that expands as people dip into it or are splashed by it,
Americans with better sanitation are better off. They might be able
to avoid getting into the planetary Ebola pool. With insular housing
and metal transportation boxes Americans can stay away from the two
or three week time period required for Ebola to burn itself out in
new victims, comparable in some respects to forest fires that last
two or three weeks and then die, unless the virus if frozen I would
guess in a body or blood during a cold winter freeze. Yet if sexual
transmission works those with the atheist mind set may become leaders
at disseminating Ebola globally.
The
sex tourism route though might be an advantaged course for prosperous
American tourists to get the disease. Wilt Chamberlain’s 50,000
conquests might have included some Africans too. If he were alive in
the H.I.V. era he might have been one of the early victims. The U.S.
Postal Service is issuing a giant stamp to honor one of America’s
highest scoring sportsmen (he is also the N.B.A.’s all time scoring
champ). Sex tourism of Africa as well as Thailand could be dangers if
the Ebola pool flows that way. Thank goodness West Nile virus (is
that the Blue Nile?) seems not to be a sexually transmitted disease,
or it would be pandemic.