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The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

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...

[opentalk]

Ebola Incubation Allowed Patient to Slip Into U.S. (up to 21 days)

...The incubation period for the Ebola virus allowed an infected patient to fly from Liberia to the U.S. and past public health officials who checked his temperature and accurately determined he did not have a fever

...Symptoms, however, may take up to 21 days after a person has been infected to show up