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To: BenLurkin

Is there any known disease that has a 90% infection rate from proximity and casual contact, and is 100% effective in killing the patient? Don’t think so.


4 posted on 01/05/2017 1:52:26 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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What university is studying “zombies”?????

These fools spend waaaaaay too much time watching TV...


8 posted on 01/05/2017 1:54:29 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: backwoods-engineer

“Is there any known disease that has a 90% infection rate from proximity and casual contact, and is 100% effective in killing the patient? Don’t think so.”

Rabies would come close if it was easier to get


26 posted on 01/05/2017 2:04:08 PM PST by Fai Mao (PIAPS for Prison)
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To: backwoods-engineer

You are right. It seems, statistically, speaking, 1% of any group infected by a disease will survive. The plague that got the rabbits in Australia had a 1% survival rate, for example. All of us know by now that HIV does not survive to do damage in some 3-4% of humans simply because those humans do not have receptors for the virus.

I cannot find survival data on untreated humans of Ebola.

This is a very interesting area and one people pay little attention to...of course, one never knows if he or she is in the survivor pool. Sigh.


114 posted on 01/05/2017 6:55:29 PM PST by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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