Posted on 10/12/2014 11:07:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Groups of monkeys in the Hazelton facility at Reston were caged in different rooms, connected only by the HVAC system. The virus jumped from room to room. Suggest you read The Hot Zone.
I read the paper: http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html No mention of the room to room transmission. Sounds like the Hot Zone author added a little extra drama to the book.
this Purdue Professor will be interviewed by Sean Hannity on his tv show this evening (Tuesday)
Haven’t read the fictional work and don’t intend to, but I’ve never seen “rooms” that weren’t connected by doors and hallways. How else did they get primates in there? Push them through the HVAC ducts? I also read somewhere human access to the rooms could have tracked the virus around.
How many people purchase Powerball tickets vs. how many are hosts for Ebola Zaire?
A quick check shows that one week 180 million were sold, vs 20k or so infections. And, as you suggest, some weeks no one wins the game even then.
Also, even if the dreaded theoretical mutation occurs, doesn't necessarily mean it will propagate.
Thanks for the ping.
How many active Ebola viruses are there? That is the question, not how many hosts.
Millions per host I presume.
The host doesn't mutate, the virus does. Each host incubates millions of copies of the virus.
Keep in mind that most mutations will make the virus less deadly or benign (rapid spread or not).
With a current mortality rate of ~70%, becoming more transmutable, but less deadly could result in killing a lot more people.
If it goes airborne the only hope is that it mutates into a less destructive virus at the same time.
I see your point, but one of those millions of copies has to mutate to go airborne and make it to a new host. So while there are some big numbers within each host, there are still a small number of new hosts around to get hit.
Very interesting story (post #36). Thanks for the link.
Interesting... the first outbreak of Ebola occurred along the Ebola river in Zaire under the rule of Mobutu Seko [sp] ...Seko was a client of arms smuggler/merchant of death Viktor Bout.
How Glenn Close’s Dad Stopped The Ebola Virus http://mentalfloss.com/article/28269/how-glenn-close%E2%80%99s-dad-stopped-ebola-virus
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