{"id":35315,"date":"2023-10-20T14:37:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/best-of-the-web-ebola-panic-grips-the-us-marc-andreessen-on-diversity-and-cloned-puppies-for-sale-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:37:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:37:49","slug":"best-of-the-web-ebola-panic-grips-the-us-marc-andreessen-on-diversity-and-cloned-puppies-for-sale-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/best-of-the-web-ebola-panic-grips-the-us-marc-andreessen-on-diversity-and-cloned-puppies-for-sale-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Web: Ebola panic grips the US; Marc Andreessen on diversity; and cloned puppies for sale – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
With the fear of Ebola spreading at a much faster rate than the virus, The New Yorker<\/i> takes time out from the hysteria to trace the origins of this latest outbreak.<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n We learn that the first patient of this outbreak (now considered an epidemic) was a two-year-old boy, and that \u201cthe virus is a parasite that lives, normally, in some as yet unidentified creature in the ecosystems of equatorial Africa\u201d. Outbreaks occur from time to time, but for the most part they are contained.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe virus is extremely infectious. Experiments suggest that if one particle of Ebola enters a person\u2019s bloodstream it can cause a fatal infection,\u201d according to The New Yorker<\/i>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThis may explain why many of the medical workers who came down with Ebola couldn\u2019t remember making any mistakes that might have exposed them. One common route of entry is thought to be the wet membrane on the inner surface of the eyelid, which a person might touch with a contaminated fingertip.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n We learn about how health authorities first became aware of what was happening, and began raising the alarm.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n It reads like a John Le Carre novel in its description of what happened, puts faces to the Ebola victims, and relays the challenges for those who tried to contain the initial outbreak.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cKhan arrived driving a battered old car. He was thirty, a modest, handsome man who smiled and joked playfully with people. Khan took up his work and gave patients exceptional attention. One day, a U.S. graduate student named Joseph Fair fell desperately ill with bloody diarrhea. Khan paid a visit to Fair at his room in a nearby Catholic mission, and that was when Fair discovered that Khan had a beautiful bedside manner.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Marc Andreessen, in a bit more than 140 characters<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n