Posted on 09/01/2014 3:06:24 PM PDT by Kartographer
Vespignani has analyzed the likelihood that Ebola will spread to other countries. Using data on millions of air travelers and commuters, as well as mobility patterns based on data from censuses and mobile devices, he has built a model of the world, into which he can introduce Ebola and then run hundreds of thousands of simulations. In general, the chance of further spread beyond West Africa is small, Vespignani says, but the risk grows with the scale of the epidemic.
Ghana, the United Kingdom, and the United States are among the countries most likely to have an introduced case, according to the model.
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Preppers’ PING!!
Ping!
Thank the resident. This was PLANNED!
Oh noes!!!!
Bird flu redux....
Well, maybe. But I remember when AIDs was going to destroy the entire country.
I pray and hope that you are right. One big difference they were never the number of bird flu deaths as there have been Ebola deaths. Also bird flu deaths dropped over time nothing like the 40% increase they are seeing in Ebola.
Just what the doctor ordered!
The airports should have been closed by August 8 at the latest.
The current policy, which as far as I can tell is, “if they come, they come” is astonishingly negligent.
Ebola burns out because it kills the host too fast. It’s too bad it’s in Lagos, but that’s life.
We need a cordon sanitaire, and we need it right away.
AIDS is not as easily transmitted as Elboa and doesn’t kill as quickly.
Like H1N1, right?
Hysteria isn’t helpful.
I never remembered that. Of the things that are destroying this country I say complacency is high on the list.
You never remembered what?
We didn’t know that back in the early 80s. We don’t know every about Ebola now.
Hysteria is not helpful.
Avian influenza H5N1 does not exhibit tertiary spread. That’s an unchanged feature of its biology since Hanoi 1997.
Ebola is another matter entirely. It has the ability to kill tens of millions and if we don’t contain it in West Africa, maybe a lot more.
151,700 and 575,400 of H1N1 in 2009, but they estimate 80% were people with existing health problems. Ebola takes everyone health and the weak. Hardly a good comparison.
Hope so too mu friend. I went to Mexico when they shut the entire government down.
Went to McDonald’s and it was very eery to eat breakfast and not see another customer.
Very zombie movie like going to the mall in Cancun and seeing just a few places open and only one restaurant.
Upside there was the guy asked us for $20 bucks a piece and had us eating and sharing stories.
Freakin awesome and never saw another person walk through the door all afternoon.
Bonus was, they served chipolines. My friends dared me to eat em.
Uhmm, okay. I had three double Scotches in me.
I drop a handful in my mouth and ate em.
Like eating crunchy lemon.
I’ll worry about Ebola when it’s time.
In a way, it has- at least culturally. Fighting AIDS under the guise of saving the planet has led to a cultural shift of embracing homosexuality as a condition of normalcy derived at birth rather than being rightly defined as the behaviorral deviancy that it is.
Is that Elboa Macaroni???
The only people I remember that that got hysterical over AIDS were the Gays and their allies.
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