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Look. Ebola is not a threat WHATSOEVER. Relax, for goodness sake!
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Posted on 10/05/2014 4:34:35 PM PDT by Lazamataz

Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. It is a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles. The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself. Small blood clots begin to appear in the bloodstream, and the blood thickens and slows, and clots begin to stick to the walls of blood vessels. This is known as pavementing, because the clots fit together in a mosaic. The mosaic thickens and throws more clots, and the clots drift through the blodstream into the small capillaries, where they get stuck. This shuts off the blood supply to various parts of the body, causing dead spots to appear in the brain, liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines, testicles, breast tissue (of men as well as women), and all through the skin. The skin develops red spots, called petechiae, which are hemorrhages under the skin. Ebola attacks connective tissue with particular ferocity; it multiplies in collegen, the chief constituent protein of the tissue that holds the organs togehter. (The seven Ebola proteins somehow chew up the body's structural proteins.) In this way, collagen in the body turns to mush, and the underlayers of the skin die and liquefy. The skin bubbles up into a sea of tiny white blisters mixed with red spots known as a maculopapular rash. This rash has been likened to tapioca pudding. Spontaneous rips appear in the skin, and hemmoraghic blood pours from the rips. The red spots on the skin grow and spread and merge to become huge, spontaneous bruises, and the skin goes soft and pulpy, and can tear off if it is touched with any kind of pressure. Your mouth bleeds, and you bleed around your teeth, and you may have hemorrhages from the salivary glands -- literally every opening in the body bleeds, no matter how small. The surface if the toungue turns brilliant red and the sloughs off, and is swallowed or spat out. It is said to be extraordinarily painful to lose the surface of one's tongue. The tongue's skin may be torn off during rushes of the black vomit. The back of the throat and the lining of the wind pipe may also slough off, and the dead tissue slides down the windpipe into the lungs or is coughed up with sputum. Your heart bleeds into itself; the heart muscle softens and has hemorrhages into its chambers, and blood squeezes out of the heart muscle as the heart beats, and it floods the chest cavity. The brain becomes clogged with dead blood cells, a conditions known as sludging of the brain. Ebola attacks the lining of the eyeball, and the eyeballs may fill up with blood: you may go blind. Droplets of blood stand out on the eyelids: you may weep blood. The blood runs from your eyes down your cheeks and refuses to coagulate. You may have a hemispherical stroke, in which one whole side of the body is paralyzed, which is invariably fatal in a case of Ebola. Even while the body's internal organs are becoming plugged with coagulated blood, the blood that streams out of the body cannot clot; it resembles whey being squeezed out of curds. The blood has been stripped of its clotting factors. If you put the runny Ebola blood in a test tube and look at it, you see that the blood is destroyed. Its red cells are broken and dead. The blood looks as if it has been buzzed in an electric blender.

Ebola kills a great deal of tissue while the host is still alive. It triggers a creeping, spotty necrosis that spreads through all the internal organs. The liver bulges up and turns yellow, begins to liquefy, and then it cracks apart. The cracks run across the liver and deep inside it, and the liver completely dies and goes putrid. The kidneys becomes jammed with blood clots and dead cells, and cease functioning. As the kidneys fail, the blood becomes toxic with urine. The spleen turns into a single huge, hard blood clot the size of a baseball. The intestines may fill up completely with blood. The lining of the gut dies and sloughs off into the bowels and is defecated along with large amounts of blood. In men, the testicles bloat up and turns black-and-blue, the semen goes hot with Ebola, and the nipples may bleed. In women, the labia turn blue, livid, and protrusive, and there may be massive vaginal bleeding. The virus is a catastrophe for a pregnant woman: the child is aborted spontaneously and is usually infected with Ebola virus, born with red eyes and a bloody nose.

Ebola destroys the brain more thoroughly than does Marburg, and Ebola victims often go into epileptic convulsions during the final stage. The convulsions are generalized grand mal seizures -- the whole body twitches and shakes, the arms and legs thrash around, and the eyes, sometimes bloody, roll up into the head. The tremors and convulsions of the patient may smear or splatter blood around. Possibly this epileptic splashing of blood is one of Ebola's strategies for success -- it makes the victim go into a flurry of seizures as he dies, spreading blood all over the place, thus giving the virus a chance to jump to a new host -- a kind of transmission through smearing.

Ebola (and Marburg) multiplies so rapidly and powerfully that the body's infected cells become crystal-like blocks of packed virus particles. These crystal are broods of virus getting ready to hatch from the cell. They are known as bricks. The bricks, or crystals, first appear near the center of the cell and then migrate towards the surface. As a crystal reaches a cell wall, it disintegrates into hundres of individual virus particles, and the broodlings push through the cell wall like hair and float away in the bloodstream of the host. The hatched Ebola particles cling to cells everywhere in the body, and get inside them, and continue to multiply. It keeps on multiplying until areas of tissue all through the body are filled with crystalloids, which hatch, and more Ebola particles drift into the bloodstream, and the amplification continues inexorably until a droplet of the hosts blood can contain a hundred million individual particles.

After death, the cadaver suddenly deteriorates: the internal organs, having been dead or partially dead for days, have already begun to dissolve, and a sort of shock-related meltdown occurs. The corpse's connective tissue, skin, and organs, already peppered with dead spots, heated by fever, and damaged by shock, begin to liquefy, and the fluids that leak from the cadaver are saturated with Ebola-virus particles.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ebola; ebolaoutbreak; ebolasymptoms; ebolatransmission; marburg
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To: UCANSEE2; RKBA Democrat; Lazamataz; arderkrag

If you think that is bad, try cancer!

Oh, wait, more people actually survive cancer.

Never mind.


201 posted on 10/05/2014 8:32:54 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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To: Brother Cracker; Lazamataz

Asking a Texan if he likes big insurance is like asking if he likes a big hat . . . or a big steak . . . or a big, dumb Dallas County judge . . . or a big Ebola!

GEICO . . . save $500 dollars or more on your next terminal illness.


202 posted on 10/05/2014 8:35:42 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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To: Lazamataz; arderkrag
But once you get it, you are on the Screw Train.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-DpRcxK_N8

You either laugh or cry die.

203 posted on 10/05/2014 8:40:02 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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To: upchuck
My shop vac has a HEPA filter.
But, I think you should know that duct tape does not stick to surfaces spayed with WD40.

I'm thinking that when this plague falls on us hard enough I can finally land that government job and work to clean up the Ebola.

I'm thinking I may even get racial preference for once since I am a privileged white man.

It is important to remain optimistic when agonizing slow death threatens to kill millions.

204 posted on 10/05/2014 8:44:58 PM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: Lazamataz

I was traveling I-80 today, and using the time to check out the various Sirius XM channels available to me, which included football games, the AL baseball playoffs, and the Foxnews channel.

I listened briefly to the latter on two separate occasions, and in each case the theme of discussion, under the rubric of different forums, was the hysterical news coverage of the Dallas Ebola case, and included extensive lecturing and soul searching on fear mongering by the media.

So who got to them? What is going on?

“I’m paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?” - Louis Wu


205 posted on 10/05/2014 9:14:20 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Lazamataz
Remember when a Mussie complained the Dairy Queen ice cream curly top spelled Allah?

Just saying there are no coincidences.

206 posted on 10/05/2014 9:59:03 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Lazamataz
Is it like this?

207 posted on 10/05/2014 10:08:07 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer
That is the fifth horseman, the rider is the Spirit of foolishness.
208 posted on 10/05/2014 10:22:03 PM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

Gallows Humour Alert!

209 posted on 10/05/2014 10:34:30 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: arderkrag

What is your deal? Do you have some facts or expertise for your rather detached attitude about some fairly serious health issues?

Children are being hospitalized for E68 which makes it more than an overhyped cold. I seriously doubt the hospitals would be admitting kids due to overhype...kids who cannot breath or are experiencing paralysis.

Ebola Moratorium? Geez!


210 posted on 10/05/2014 11:16:36 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (w)
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To: arderkrag

I don’t mock travel restrictions, consequently. They’re a decent idea


Glad to see you support travel restrictions.


211 posted on 10/05/2014 11:18:25 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (w)
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To: bushwon

St. Louis news reported yesterday that 4 children had died from the Entero Virus D68. It’s in more than 40 states now, and should be getting more national coverage than it is.

All kinds of stuff will pass under the radar while the Media concentrates on Ebola. I am concerned about Ebola also, don’t get me wrong, but they need to report on other stuff too.


212 posted on 10/05/2014 11:43:26 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes

Exactly.


213 posted on 10/06/2014 4:37:25 AM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: PreciousLiberty

Oh, no, this thread has been infected by the iHeartApple virus.


214 posted on 10/06/2014 4:42:27 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: BitWielder1

Am going to take this stance to remain ‘Laughingly calm’ instead of screaming and crying. Yep, doing such ensures my classification as ‘insane’ and ‘religious fanaticism’. Love those classifications and lists that are constantly being compiled. Might become lucky and make another list?


215 posted on 10/06/2014 5:06:11 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: AZLiberty

Thanks for the laughs! Made our morning!


216 posted on 10/06/2014 5:40:49 AM PDT by Red Boots
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To: Lazamataz
"kittens, clouds, bunnies." ..... and chocolate cake!

And ignore the men in those attractive, protective "Kerry bunny" suits because Ebol-ee is all under control by our elusive leader (who, according to his wife is just a stinky, smelly man, so maybe he's had ebol-ee for years and she's smelling decomp)

217 posted on 10/06/2014 5:50:49 AM PDT by CAluvdubya (<------- has now left CA for NV, where guns and God have not been outlawed! Molon Labe)
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To: Diogenesis

That looks like James Carvel.


218 posted on 10/06/2014 5:52:10 AM PDT by CAluvdubya (<------- has now left CA for NV, where guns and God have not been outlawed! Molon Labe)
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To: arderkrag
So the little boy died yesterday from an overhyped cold?

Humans breathe through their mouth and nose so you might want to take your head out of the sand if you want to stay alive....

219 posted on 10/06/2014 6:04:38 AM PDT by CAluvdubya (<------- has now left CA for NV, where guns and God have not been outlawed! Molon Labe)
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http://outbreaks.globalincidentmap.com/home.php
220 posted on 10/06/2014 6:14:17 AM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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