The case of ebola epidemic is used to remind us not to be overoptimistic about a cure for ageing which depends on bio-medical technology.

1. Progress in medicine?
The ebola epidemic should be an eye-opener for those who believe that
a medical cure for aging is imminent

2. Latest news: No progress in 200 years!
• Hydrogen peroxide vapour recommended in Ebola preparedness
protocols (Hydrogen peroxide: discovered in 1818)

3. Blood donation centres to be set up in Liberia for Ebola
survivor donors (The Independent October 2014)
Progress in 400 years? Blood
transfusion for ebola
The first blood transfusion was in
1628 AD

4. Spot the similarities
No progress in 500 years!
Plague in the Middle Ages Ebola today

5. The physician's protective clothing in plague or
other epidemics remains essentially THE SAME
several centuries later.
Here, protective clothing in a plague epidemic
is contrasted to the modern protective clothing
in the ebola case. Notice the boots, gloves, long
apron with the shoulder piece, the head
clothing with the mask, the long stick.

6. Medicine has made some progress but not much really.
The Moral: if you believe that someday some guy will
discover a pill to make you live forever, think again!
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