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−	The 17-year-old, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for campaigning for girls education in Pakistan s Swat Valley, has become an international household name, particularly following her high-profile speech to the United Nations last year, and has authored a best-selling memoir.	+	Diseases in the gallery above were or are extremely bad and some like AIDS are full-blown pandemics, but the panic about how they spread can far outstrip the reality of how you鈥檙e likely to catch the disease.
−	Satyarthi, a 60-year-old campaigner against child labor in India, is much less well-known. He s known for mounting raids on factories employing children 鈥?sometimes facing down armed guards 鈥?as well as running a rehabilitation center for liberated children, organizing the Global March Against Child Labour, and setting up a certification system to ensure that carpets are made without child labor.	+	Remember the panic that led people to worry they could contract the AIDS-causing virus by shaking someone鈥檚 hand or kissing 鈥?鈥淚f the person has a cut lip and I kiss them, can I get AIDS鈥?
−	While Yousafzai and Satyarthi are both admirable and inspiring figures, I think it s worth stepping back and assessing the Nobel committee s mission. In its early years, the Nobel Peace Prize was most often given to honor a specific accomplishment in peacemaking 鈥?a treaty drafted or a conflict ended. (This is why some individuals not exactly known for their pacifism 鈥?Yasser Arafat and Henry Kissinger to name a couple 鈥?have peace prizes.) But overall, it s more often been given to individuals involved in the struggle against a particular pressing problem or injustice. (Think Al Gore or Aung San Suu Kyi.) This year is obviously an example of this second type of prize.	+	Can I get Ebola if an infected person sneezes and shoots a droplet of bodily fluid right into my eye?
−	While the (somewhat inexplicable) prestige of the Nobel can certainly bring attention to worthy individuals, there s less evidence to suggest it helps their causes. For instance, the prize given to human rights activist Liu Xiaobo in 2010 has probably made it less likely that Chinese authorities will let him out of prison.	+	Well, you can construct a thousand scenarios in which you鈥檇 get these diseases. But, the reality is that Ebola like AIDS is transmitted through very intimate contact, just so happens that the particularities of AIDS were such that there was a lot of sexual contact going on before people even realized that the virus was burning in the background.
−	Some also find the western media s fascination with Yousafzai a little troubling. When she was passed over for the prize last year, blogger and technology researcher Zeynep Tufekci argued in a widely read post that in the Malala narrative our multi-decade involvement in Pakistan is reduced to finding a young woman we admire that we all want to take home as if to put on a shelf to adore. Whereas, she continued, what the world is desperately lacking, and the Nobel Committee, for once, rewarded, is the kind of boring, institutional work of peace that advances the lives of people.	+	While the AIDS storyline is one the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention really wants to avoid, that doesn鈥檛 mean the Ebola virus is easy to catch. It just means that like the general populous was slow to react to a disease thought to be primarily visited upon gay men, Ebola can鈥檛 be treated as an 鈥淎frica鈥?problem that we in America can shrug at.
−	There is something irritatingly smug and condescending about some of the coverage of the bravest girl in the world. It was a particular low point when, on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart said I want to adopt you to a young woman who s spoken very publicly about the support she s received from her father 鈥?a pretty brave guy in his own right.	+	鈥淚t鈥檚 going to be a long fight. We have to work now so that it is not the world鈥檚 next AIDS,鈥?Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,  in Washington, D.C.
−	But that s our problem, not hers. My guess is that someone s who s comfortable telling the president of the United States to his face that his military policies are fueling terrorism isn t going to let herself be reduced to a cuddly caricature. And in any case, it was probably wise for the Nobel committee to pair the very young global celebrity with a relatively unheralded activist with years of work behind him.	+	鈥淭rying to block your borders or isolate those countries in some way is not going to work,鈥?said World Bank President Jim Yong Kim at Thursday鈥檚 meeting.
−	The committee gave its last two awards to institutions 鈥?the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the European Union 鈥?and not particularly popular ones at that. In a year in which governments and international institutions seemed particularly ineffectual in dealing with mounting violence and instability, giving the award to individuals seems appropriate. Dividing the peace prize between an Indian and a Pakistani also seems like a deliberate statement at a time when tensions are once again escalating between the perennial adversaries.	+	As : Kim, a doctor who formerly led the World Health Organization鈥檚 global AIDS treatment program, said studies of past disease outbreaks, such as the SARS virus, show that 80 percent to 90 percent of the economic impact comes from 鈥渢he fear factor that surrounds the outbreak.鈥?
−		+	A World Bank report this week estimated that the economic toll of the largest Ebola outbreak in history could reach $32.6 billion if the disease continues to spread in West Africa through next year. More than 3,800 people have died.<p>Related Articles:</p><ul><li><a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com>Celine Handbags Outlet</a></li><li><a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com/celine-new-arrivals-35>Celine Bags New Arrivals</a></li><li><a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com/celine-trapeze-bags-36>Celine Trapeze Bags</a></li></ul>
−	So, congratulations to the Nobel committee: If you were going to give the award to someone, you could have done a lot worse.	+
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@@@ Diseases in the gallery above were or are extremely bad and some like AIDS are full-blown pandemics, but the panic about how they spread can far outstrip the reality of how you鈥檙e likely to catch the disease.

Remember the panic that led people to worry they could contract the AIDS-causing virus by shaking someone鈥檚 hand or kissing 鈥?鈥淚f the person has a cut lip and I kiss them, can I get AIDS鈥?

Can I get Ebola if an infected person sneezes and shoots a droplet of bodily fluid right into my eye?

Well, you can construct a thousand scenarios in which you鈥檇 get these diseases. But, the reality is that Ebola like AIDS is transmitted through very intimate contact, just so happens that the particularities of AIDS were such that there was a lot of sexual contact going on before people even realized that the virus was burning in the background.

While the AIDS storyline is one the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention really wants to avoid, that doesn鈥檛 mean the Ebola virus is easy to catch. It just means that like the general populous was slow to react to a disease thought to be primarily visited upon gay men, Ebola can鈥檛 be treated as an 鈥淎frica鈥?problem that we in America can shrug at.

鈥淚t鈥檚 going to be a long fight. We have to work now so that it is not the world鈥檚 next AIDS,鈥?Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Washington, D.C.

鈥淭rying to block your borders or isolate those countries in some way is not going to work,鈥?said World Bank President Jim Yong Kim at Thursday鈥檚 meeting.

As : Kim, a doctor who formerly led the World Health Organization鈥檚 global AIDS treatment program, said studies of past disease outbreaks, such as the SARS virus, show that 80 percent to 90 percent of the economic impact comes from 鈥渢he fear factor that surrounds the outbreak.鈥?

A World Bank report this week estimated that the economic toll of the largest Ebola outbreak in history could reach $32.6 billion if the disease continues to spread in West Africa through next year. More than 3,800 people have died.

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