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To: discostu
flu has got ebola beat hands down.

At this point, you are absolutely correct. I think the only caveat here is that this strain of Ebola seems to be more transmissible than previous strains, so the ultimate infection rate may not be known. At this time, I am more concerned about D86 actually, got a few young kids....

28 posted on 10/09/2014 12:18:02 PM PDT by Paradox (and now here we are....)
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To: Paradox

I don’t think this one is more transmissible, the world just keeps getting smaller. Epidemiologists have been saying for a long time that a big outbreak is inevitable, travel in this world is too easy to keep diseases isolated. The thing that’s always protected us from ebola, and still is, is actually the lethality, it just kills people way too fast to transmit enough to be a real threat. If an ebola strain comes up that makes people just mildly sick for a week or so before things escalate THEN we’re in trouble.


33 posted on 10/09/2014 1:09:39 PM PDT by discostu (We don't leave the ladies crying cause the story's sad.)
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