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Could Ebola now be airborne?
Daily Mail ^ | 3/28/14 | DAMIEN GAYLE

Posted on 03/28/2014 6:34:35 PM PDT by Kartographer

Fears are growing that the most lethal form of the Ebola virus can mutate into an airborne pathogen, making the spread of the terrifying disease more difficult to check. It was previously thought the untreatable virus, which causes massive internal bleeding and multiple organ failure, could only be transmitted through contact with infected blood. But now Canadian researchers have carried out experiments showing how monkeys can catch the deadly disease from infected pigs without coming into direct contact.k

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airborne; bleeding; blood; canadian; deadly; disease; ebola; experiments; infected; monkey; organfailure; pathogen; pigs; researchers; transmitted; untreatable; virus
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To: CorporateStepsister
Seriously, do you think that Zero would really care if airborne Ebola broke out in this country? The world is his golf course.
61 posted on 03/29/2014 6:50:21 AM PDT by SisterK (behold a pale horse)
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To: rlmorel

That made me laugh, but you do know that your referenced comment and most others are humorous (but cautionary) in nature.

We have a truly fun, insightful group of people here. It’s the family you choose, rather than the family you are stuck with.


62 posted on 03/29/2014 6:57:52 AM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: Sine_Pari
A Ft. Detrick team....

The veterinarians and techs that were dispatched to Reston from Ft. Detrick had some stories about that event. What amazed me is that the entire episode happened within an eighth of a mile from several fast food establishments, McDonalds. They used unmarked white vans to get there at night and were finished by daylight.

63 posted on 03/29/2014 7:45:22 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: ConservativeMind

I know...but that WAS the first thing I thought of when I read this: “Great. Now I have another thing to worry about...”

I know there is nothing in the least funny about Ebola, but...hey, gotta find a way to stay sane!


64 posted on 03/29/2014 9:03:38 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: WildHighlander57

Early explorers didn’t live long enough to document diseases like this.

Prior to the advent of modern vaccines and antibiotics, the life expectancy of a European in Subsaharan Africa was under a year.

That’s why slaves sold out of western African into the New World slave trade were captured and sold by other Africans.


65 posted on 03/29/2014 10:57:36 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Why would The Won want to keep the country calm if this ever does break-out in the US?

He, and the barbarians on the other end of his BlackBerry, want to see most of us dead and the rest in chains.

If an airborne-spread high-mortality disease of any sort broke-out in this country he, Michelle and VJ would be dancing a jig on the Resolute desk.


66 posted on 03/29/2014 11:00:41 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Yeah, but leaders have a bad habit of ending up dead at the hands of a mob when the citizenry get out of control over any kind of issue.


67 posted on 03/29/2014 1:08:38 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: CorporateStepsister

If, by “keep the country calm” you mean “suppress the insurrection”, you may have a point.


68 posted on 03/29/2014 3:53:40 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Kartographer

The father of Glenn Close was instrumental in stopping the 1976 outbreak. He was the physician to the President of Zaire.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/28269/how-glenn-close%E2%80%99s-dad-stopped-ebola-virus


69 posted on 03/29/2014 6:56:05 PM PDT by goosie
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear; goldstategop
The mortality rate is effectively 100%. .....68%

The mortality for Ebola is ...well, it depends. It depends on which specific Ebola virus we are talking about. There are five different strains, with mortality ranging from 83-90% for the Zaire Ebola strain, through to 68% for the Sudan strain, to just 34% for the Uganda strain. It will be interesting to see the final mortality for this West African strain, and whether it is a new one. Considering the only prior West African strain is a Cote'D'Ivoire strain, which killed a bunch of chimpanzees and only infected one person, who survived, the fact that this W.African strain has killed many people indicates that it is probably a new strain. This would make the known Ebola strains to be 6 (Zaire, Uganda, Sudan, Cote D'Ivoire and Reston ...with Reston coming out of the Philippies originally and not Africa. This new one, let's call it W.Africa, would be six).

There is also the Marburg virus, which is similar to Ebola and can also be nasty, with mortality ranging from the low 20% to 100%. I guess it depends on your luck that day. What is interesting about Marburg is that this is the virus that the Soviets had spent a LOT of money weaponizing.

70 posted on 04/01/2014 2:27:16 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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