To: Mother Abigail
"The outbreaks of these diseases are often self-contained, however, because they kill their hosts so quickly that they rapidly run out of people to infect."
That's because the outbreaks occurred in outlying districts. Couple international air travel with an outbreak in an urban capital, and you've got the potential for the disease to spread like a prairie fire. I was in Zaire when it had its Ebola outbreak. The sense of fear and dred was all consuming.
6 posted on
08/04/2012 4:53:48 AM PDT by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
To: PowderMonkey
10 posted on
08/04/2012 5:05:07 AM PDT by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama Kills))
To: PowderMonkey
Among the first cases back in the early 1980’s was an outbreak in a hospital in Southern Sudan. It was so horrendous that the entire medical staff ran away.
11 posted on
08/04/2012 5:09:22 AM PDT by
BwanaNdege
(Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
To: PowderMonkey
Couple international air travel with an outbreak in an urban capital, and you’ve got the potential for the disease to spread like a prairie fire. I was in Zaire when it had its Ebola outbreak. The sense of fear and dred was all consuming.
Yup. Once it hits an urban area with air travel,,,games over. It will spread around the world. And they should be afraid. An ebola pandemic would make AIDS look like a mild case of the sniffles.
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