...in the White House Briefing Room!
Posted on 10/07/2009 2:57:55 PM PDT by James Oscar
The Hot Zone.
The barking comes from the female libtards, from what I’ve seen...
The building blocks of a cure?
While some outbreaks in humans have been directly linked to contact with bats, more evidence exists to link cases with infected apes, chimpanzees and other primates that are often consumed in Central Africa. These animals, in turn, probably got the virus by eating fruit contaminated with saliva or other bodily fluids from bats, according to Pourrut.
Children can get the virus from the eating the contaminated fruit, just as apes, chimps, and other primates. And most of the outbreaks start in very isolated villages. I don't know of many that have an index case in a city.
Heh. Indeed, it seems they have been pushed to the front lines as the mouth pieces for the closely related Finagling Moonbats™.
During the second epidemic, in Angola, the first victims were children who had gathered fruit from trees where a large population of this species of fruit bat roosted. Other evidence was the fact that the capture sites chosen for this study were all located near caves harbouring sizeable groups of these bats. Moreover, the discovery of such bats that were carriers of Marburg virus in Gabon, a country where no clinical case has yet been recorded, gives an incentive for setting up surveillance and prevention measures in regions where no MHF virus epidemic has ever occurred.
When the bats roost in the fruit trees, blood, saliva, and other body fluids can contaminate the fruit. Moreover, the bats can give birth in the fruit trees, contaminating the fruit with placental blood, etc.
Looks like the source has been found. That could lead to a treatment and vaccine.
Note that almost all outbreaks had in common rainy weather, mine workings and/or caves, and people consuming 'bushmeat' was common as well, at least in the index cases for the outbreak.
It is not hard to believe that primates were consumed which had been infected through eating contaminated fruit or living in locales which the bats passed through, and then either the primates or bats were consumed directly by the locals.
Direct contact with blood, fluids in caves and mine workings is a possibility as well.
Something further: some viruses, such as hanta are found in the dried urine of mice, it is possible that dried bat guano or urine may provide a reservoir for Ebola/Marburg much like Hantavirus survives in crystalized mouse urine.
This is almost a reunion thread,lol.
Yes, it is.
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