Posted on 03/28/2014 6:34:35 PM PDT by Kartographer
Fears are growing that the most lethal form of the Ebola virus can mutate into an airborne pathogen, making the spread of the terrifying disease more difficult to check. It was previously thought the untreatable virus, which causes massive internal bleeding and multiple organ failure, could only be transmitted through contact with infected blood. But now Canadian researchers have carried out experiments showing how monkeys can catch the deadly disease from infected pigs without coming into direct contact.k
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Peppers’ PING!!
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
gee I hope no middle eastern scientists are part of that experiment.
Hemorrhagic fever. The mortality rate is effectively 100%. You bleed to death from the inside out.
Its the real Captain Trips. Ebola is one of those nightmare viruses confined to the depths of the jungles - or we so we thought.
...wouldn’t you like to be a pepper too?
We’ll see if the theory that a high mortality rate eventually limits the spread of the pathogen.
They need to work on a vaccine.
But don’t forget, Islamic clerics will still be opposed to vaccinating their own people against dying of septic shock.
Kartographer, thanks for the post!
All y’all, ping to this topic!
Airborne mutations of Ebola.
Plot device(s) in the movie Outbreak and the Tom Clancy novel Rainbow Six if I recall correctly.
Scary.
How many exposed have already jumped on a plane out???
That abandoned women’s prison is looking better and better.
Tom Clancy’s “Executive Orders”.
The Iranians try to develop a strain of Ebola Mayinga that gets deployed as an aerosol. After the initial infection outbreak, it burns out due to lack of contact with victims.
The nastiest killer in human history was a bacteria named yersina pestis. Better known as the Black Death.
It killed half the population of medieval Europe. Giovanni Boccaccio’s famous “Decameron” has it as its background.
Amen Brother!
Hmmm, how is it that we never heard of this sort of disease from the annals of the early explorers?
When was the first case documented?
Ebola has always been prevalent among African animals. They have acquired a natural immunity to it. Unfortunately, few human beings have it and that is why its nearly almost lethal.
The bubonic plague on the other hand can be treated with antibiotics.
These tests were conducted of Africa....
Ebola and the Black Death are the ones you hope don’t mutate and become airborne. Either one would make New York in “The Stand” look like a picnic.
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