Posted on 10/05/2014 4:34:35 PM PDT by Lazamataz
Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. It is a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles. The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself. Small blood clots begin to appear in the bloodstream, and the blood thickens and slows, and clots begin to stick to the walls of blood vessels. This is known as pavementing, because the clots fit together in a mosaic. The mosaic thickens and throws more clots, and the clots drift through the blodstream into the small capillaries, where they get stuck. This shuts off the blood supply to various parts of the body, causing dead spots to appear in the brain, liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines, testicles, breast tissue (of men as well as women), and all through the skin. The skin develops red spots, called petechiae, which are hemorrhages under the skin. Ebola attacks connective tissue with particular ferocity; it multiplies in collegen, the chief constituent protein of the tissue that holds the organs togehter. (The seven Ebola proteins somehow chew up the body's structural proteins.) In this way, collagen in the body turns to mush, and the underlayers of the skin die and liquefy. The skin bubbles up into a sea of tiny white blisters mixed with red spots known as a maculopapular rash. This rash has been likened to tapioca pudding. Spontaneous rips appear in the skin, and hemmoraghic blood pours from the rips. The red spots on the skin grow and spread and merge to become huge, spontaneous bruises, and the skin goes soft and pulpy, and can tear off if it is touched with any kind of pressure. Your mouth bleeds, and you bleed around your teeth, and you may have hemorrhages from the salivary glands -- literally every opening in the body bleeds, no matter how small. The surface if the toungue turns brilliant red and the sloughs off, and is swallowed or spat out. It is said to be extraordinarily painful to lose the surface of one's tongue. The tongue's skin may be torn off during rushes of the black vomit. The back of the throat and the lining of the wind pipe may also slough off, and the dead tissue slides down the windpipe into the lungs or is coughed up with sputum. Your heart bleeds into itself; the heart muscle softens and has hemorrhages into its chambers, and blood squeezes out of the heart muscle as the heart beats, and it floods the chest cavity. The brain becomes clogged with dead blood cells, a conditions known as sludging of the brain. Ebola attacks the lining of the eyeball, and the eyeballs may fill up with blood: you may go blind. Droplets of blood stand out on the eyelids: you may weep blood. The blood runs from your eyes down your cheeks and refuses to coagulate. You may have a hemispherical stroke, in which one whole side of the body is paralyzed, which is invariably fatal in a case of Ebola. Even while the body's internal organs are becoming plugged with coagulated blood, the blood that streams out of the body cannot clot; it resembles whey being squeezed out of curds. The blood has been stripped of its clotting factors. If you put the runny Ebola blood in a test tube and look at it, you see that the blood is destroyed. Its red cells are broken and dead. The blood looks as if it has been buzzed in an electric blender.
Ebola kills a great deal of tissue while the host is still alive. It triggers a creeping, spotty necrosis that spreads through all the internal organs. The liver bulges up and turns yellow, begins to liquefy, and then it cracks apart. The cracks run across the liver and deep inside it, and the liver completely dies and goes putrid. The kidneys becomes jammed with blood clots and dead cells, and cease functioning. As the kidneys fail, the blood becomes toxic with urine. The spleen turns into a single huge, hard blood clot the size of a baseball. The intestines may fill up completely with blood. The lining of the gut dies and sloughs off into the bowels and is defecated along with large amounts of blood. In men, the testicles bloat up and turns black-and-blue, the semen goes hot with Ebola, and the nipples may bleed. In women, the labia turn blue, livid, and protrusive, and there may be massive vaginal bleeding. The virus is a catastrophe for a pregnant woman: the child is aborted spontaneously and is usually infected with Ebola virus, born with red eyes and a bloody nose.
Ebola destroys the brain more thoroughly than does Marburg, and Ebola victims often go into epileptic convulsions during the final stage. The convulsions are generalized grand mal seizures -- the whole body twitches and shakes, the arms and legs thrash around, and the eyes, sometimes bloody, roll up into the head. The tremors and convulsions of the patient may smear or splatter blood around. Possibly this epileptic splashing of blood is one of Ebola's strategies for success -- it makes the victim go into a flurry of seizures as he dies, spreading blood all over the place, thus giving the virus a chance to jump to a new host -- a kind of transmission through smearing.
Ebola (and Marburg) multiplies so rapidly and powerfully that the body's infected cells become crystal-like blocks of packed virus particles. These crystal are broods of virus getting ready to hatch from the cell. They are known as bricks. The bricks, or crystals, first appear near the center of the cell and then migrate towards the surface. As a crystal reaches a cell wall, it disintegrates into hundres of individual virus particles, and the broodlings push through the cell wall like hair and float away in the bloodstream of the host. The hatched Ebola particles cling to cells everywhere in the body, and get inside them, and continue to multiply. It keeps on multiplying until areas of tissue all through the body are filled with crystalloids, which hatch, and more Ebola particles drift into the bloodstream, and the amplification continues inexorably until a droplet of the hosts blood can contain a hundred million individual particles.
After death, the cadaver suddenly deteriorates: the internal organs, having been dead or partially dead for days, have already begun to dissolve, and a sort of shock-related meltdown occurs. The corpse's connective tissue, skin, and organs, already peppered with dead spots, heated by fever, and damaged by shock, begin to liquefy, and the fluids that leak from the cadaver are saturated with Ebola-virus particles.
Does all of the extra ammo the government agencies have purchased start to make sense now.
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Awful \Aw"ful\, a.
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an awful scene. "The hour of Nature's awful throes."
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fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear;
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Heaven's awful Monarch. --Milton.
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3. Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken. [Obs.]
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A weak and awful reverence for antiquity. --I.
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Thrust from the company of awful men. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
awful
adv 1: used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful
sorry" [syn: terribly, awfully, awful,
frightfully]
adj 1: exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste";
"abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful
manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible
handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the
room" [syn: atrocious, abominable, awful,
dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable]
2: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful
risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that
London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster";
"polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a
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shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire,
direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful,
fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific,
terrible]
3: offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood";
"a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a
nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my
funeral?"- Ezra Pound [syn: nasty, awful] [ant: nice]
4: inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence;
"awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads"
[syn: awed, awful]
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frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money" [syn:
frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous]
6: inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an
amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight";
"the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose
gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul
beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so
vast, so high, so silent" [syn: amazing, awe-inspiring,
awesome, awful, awing]
I think there is serious and counterproductive hysteria on this site, but that said, there’d be a heck of a lot less if anybody felt that the US government had a policy and that the medical authorities were not politically motivated and actually knew what they were talking about and had a plan.
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Club of Rome has your deck chair I believe.....
If ISIS and AL-Queda strap on suicide belts, why wouldn’t they attempt to strike against the great Satan by contracting Ebola and visiting college campuses, restaurants and riding public transportation? All the while spreading as much phlegm and bodily fluids on public surfaces as they can.
I’m not freaked out yet, but I am thinking.
How is are the economies doing in the countries where Ebola is established?
The really fun part is that is what happens to all your internal organs as well, you just can’t see it as easily....
I can easily imagine that entire statement being sung to Dean Martin's classic tune That's Amore!
All of which explain why it requires bio hazard level 4 protections.
What about smallpox?
I read on the internets that a deadly disease mutating into something other than its current state only happens in the movies and on an occasional episode of CSI when the writers partied too much on the weekend just before the table read.
In ‘Executive Orders’, it’s “Ebola Mayinga”, supposedly airborne-vectored and released in several places around the country, all of them being conventions or meetings with large numbers of people. It eventually burned out after a declaration of martial law, plus nation-wide quarantine & travel restrictions being enacted. I no longer have the book, but IIRC the death toll was in the thousands. Without the travel restrictions and quarantine, there would have been more.
In “Rainbow Six”, it was a scientifically-mutated strain of ‘super-Ebola’ that killed faster and spread quicker than ‘regular’ Ebola. The difference is....the eco-terrorist group that was going to use it also developed a vaccine for it, which they all took. They were going to release it at some big sporting event. They were thwarted and were all eliminated in a very imaginative manner.
Even if you survive the Ebola epidemic, YOU ARE STILL GONNA DIE!
which one started out with a nun on a plane who had ebola and was flown to some Arab country
That was ‘Executive Orders’.
The worms crawl in.
The worms crawl out.
The worms play pinochle on your snout.
Your eyes turn red.
Your guts turn green.
Your liver comes out like whipping cream.
Wow. That dumb county judge from Dallas is in for a wild ride!
Yeeeeeeeee-haaaaaaaw, as they say down there!
PING!
” It is a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles.”
This sounds just like The One’s plan to transform America!
C’mon, I’ve had poison ivy worse than that!
Let ‘em come over. What’s the big deal???
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