EBOLA CRISIS IN ASIA - Medical and Dental Holidays in Asia Are Alive and Well

Updated January 22, 2016

Reprinted from Dental Tourism News Today

The ebola virus was  potentially the biggest calamity to come along since AIDS which has cost over 35 million lives in the past 3 decades.  

The first recorded swine flu influenza pandemic occurred in 1918 and killed an approximate 50-100 million worldwide. The more recent one was responsible for 1,000,s but not millions of deaths. One can deduce the difference being largely due to advances in medical care and modern drug treatments.
 Now along comes ebola at a time when people are traveling more and the virus itself is more communicable than the swine flu of 2009. 

Estimates vary widely as to how many could be infected by the time it burns itself out or God-forbid – mutates and becomes airborne. Before the virus was under control by the health authorities we were looking at a doomsday scenario straight out of Hollywood only worse. 

The CDC postulates that the number of ebola infections doubles every month with a 50% patient mortality rate. So far over by Jan. 2016 11,000 have died in West Africa and one in the USA. They were  predicting 15,000 cases by year end 2014. US Marine General John Kelly was predicting 30 million cases by that time his grim scenario was based on supposed waves of infected West Africans sneaking into the US via Central America and then up through Mexico.  

fortunately his well publicized predictions never happened. In fact - world governments banded together and managed to virtually eliminate in West Africa.

Ebola did not affect healthcare tourism, being largely contained to a few West African countries back in 2014 2015.  Medical and Dental Tourism in Asia, Europe and Mexico thrives. 

The AIDS virus has been running rampant worldwide for over 30 years and has claimed 35 million victims. To have many millions of deaths from ebola as some predict on the extreme end is sobering. 

Governments acted quickly enough by containing ebola and eliminating it in West Africa, we will all be grateful and paying our taxes will seem less painful when we see our tax dollars saving people rather than bombing them.

As of October 12, 2014, there are not any reported ebola cases in Asia or Mexico – both prime healthcare tourism destinations for Western patients. 

Some of the most popular medical and dental tourism places today are Puerto Vallarta, Tijuana, Bangkok and Manila. 

Hong Kong and Thailand are currently no-goes due to continuing political unrest. Turkey, the Ukraine and the rest of the Middle-East - don't even think about it.

But that's the way the world is these days. We can't stay home shut in forever - the world has its safe areas and unsafe ones. Just like any major city.

So pack your bags and get that elective surgery or cosmetic dental makeover you’ve always dreamed of. Now is still a great time to take a medical or dental vacation to Manila or Mexico. 

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