Ebola death rates 70% - WHO study

BBC ^ | 09/23/14

[Enlightened1]

In the worst case scenario, cases in two nations could reach 1.4 million in January, according to a US estimate.

[GOPJ]

90% = earlier Ebola epidemics that burned themselves out.

50% = the Black Plague.

10% = the killer flu that went around the world during WW1.

It's also moved into cities for the first time... . Another problem is people stay relatively healthy until shortly before death. That allow more time for the sick to walk around and spread the disease...

The CDC's on top of it... well, just kidding - they're not doing crap to help citizens except to tell people that being overweight in bad for your health. If this comes here because the CDC didn't close down flights between here and the hot zone - they should be defunded...

[exDemMom]

No word yet which strain of Ebola is loose. Some of the more nasty strains have a mortality rate higher than 90%. The 70% figure sounds like an average.

This is the Ebola Zaire strain. Its mortality rate is highly variable, ranging from 44% to 90% in past outbreaks.

[exDemMom]

Not true at all, yet parroted endlessly. Once you are symptomatic enough to either be self-isolating, immobile, or so symptomatic that any rational person would avoid you, it makes no difference to the virus' long-term "plans" whether you live or die (although through dying, it opens up other vectors, which would help the virus, not hurt it).

Ebola is not contagious until it is symptomatic. There have probably been many outbreaks in isolated villages where it killed everyone, but never got out of that village--it burned out. The difference now is that people are more mobile, and the hands-on funeral customs in the affected areas are very conducive to virus spread.