A new video game uses an epidemic model with a complex and realistic set of variables to simulate the spread and severity of a plague. Available as an app from iTunes, it has been dowloaded 25 million times. Now, with Ebola, Plague Inc., as it is called, appears to have morphed from virtual into actual reality. "I will say that in the thirty years I've been working in public health, the only thing like this has been AIDS, and we have to work now so that this is not the world's next AIDS." After they showed Dr. Thomas Frieden, former NYC Dept of Health Commissioner (2002-2009) and now Director of CDC, making this statement on the evening news, my life partner Arnie and I just looked at each...
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