Ebola Outbreak

[Peter1469]

Red measles - 10% mortality rate without complications. 20-30% with complications. Also varies on whether you get sick in a developed country or a non-developed country.

Well I have had the MMR vaccine multiple times.

[sotmfs]

Ebola Outbreak



One of these days this critter is going to figure out how not to kill its host so quickly....

It most likely does not kill its host. Humans are not its natural host.

[Green Arrow]

It most likely does not kill its host. Humans are not its natural host.

Actually, Ebola is most likely TO kill its host. 90% of humans that catch Ebola die from it.

[sotmfs]

Actually, Ebola is most likely TO kill its host. 90% of humans that catch Ebola die from it.

Ebola wants to survive.Ebola is not suicidal.Humans are not the natural host and that is the reason 90% die from the viral infection.We are evidently similar enough to the Ebola host to be infected and then most of the time die. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virology Every lethal viral disease presents a paradox: killing its host is obviously of no benefit to the virus, so how and why did it evolve to do so? Today it is believed that most viruses are relatively benign in their natural hosts; some viral infection might even be beneficial to the host. 1976 saw the first recorded outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, a highly lethal virally transmitted disease.

[Peter1469]

Another update:

There is little chance that this will become a large regional problem, much less so beyond Western Africa (the Canadian tested negative), but the media likes to talk about it.

Aid organisation Doctors Without Borders said an Ebola outbreak suspected of killing dozens in Guinea was an "unprecedented epidemic" as Liberia confirmed its first cases of the deadly contagion.

Guinea's health ministry this year has reported 122 "suspicious cases" of viral haemorrhagic fever, including 78 deaths, with 22 of the samples taken from patients testing positive for the highly contagious tropical pathogen.


"We are facing an epidemic of a magnitude never before seen in terms of the distribution of cases in the country: Gueckedou, Macenta, Kissidougou, Nzerekore, and now Conakry," Mariano Lugli, the organisation's coordinator in the Guinean capital, said in a statement.

[Peter1469]

Liberia has new cases from an independent source.

Link.

Liberia said on Thursday it was dealing with the first case of suspected Ebola to have originated within its own borders, unconnected to the epidemic raging in neighbouring Guinea.

If confirmed, the case in the eastern town of Tapeta would mark a worrying development in the fight against Ebola, as cases so far have been attributed to people returning with the infection from Guinea, where 84 people have died.

[Peter1469]

Now Mali has identified possible Ebola cases.

Mali said it had identified its first possible cases of Ebola since the start of an outbreak in neighbouring Guinea, adding to fears that the deadly virus was spreading across West Africa.


More than 90 people have already died in Guinea and Liberia in what medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has warned could turn into an unprecedented epidemic in an impoverished region with poor health services.

[donttread]

The current variant kills 90% of its victims really fast. Luckily most victims are in the African bush. What if someone gets on an international flight and symptoms start?

I think it's blood bourne

[Peter1469]

I think it's blood bourne

What is that?

[Akula]

That's right. And, as with malaria, as long as the people dying are black, who cares. Now, if the ebola virus were to spread to California, Katy bar the door. Then, it's a crisis.

It started in africa, so it seems that most of the infected would be...african...and coincidentally, most africans are $#@!id or "black". Are you saying ebola is a "racist" disease because it doesn't kill enough white people? Maybe we should mandate that a certain number of white people should be infected..that way there is no "inequality".

africa is the most backward continent in the world. They are still struggling to figure out electricity, running water and crop rotation...never mind that they still practice slavery and burn "witches"...Is it any wonder they have the highest rates of disease in the world?