Move over 'Captain Trips'!
To: Axenolith; dynachrome; Sacajaweau; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; ...
2 posted on
03/28/2014 6:35:13 PM PDT by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Bring Out Your Dead
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...
3 posted on
03/28/2014 6:36:59 PM PDT by
null and void
( Everything evil in the world may not be Islamic but everything Islamic is evil.)
To: Kartographer
gee I hope no middle eastern scientists are part of that experiment.
4 posted on
03/28/2014 6:38:03 PM PDT by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Kartographer
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.
5 posted on
03/28/2014 6:38:33 PM PDT by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Kartographer
7 posted on
03/28/2014 6:40:54 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Kartographer; LucyT; maggief; hoosiermama; null and void; Mother Abigail
Kartographer, thanks for the post!
All y’all, ping to this topic!
10 posted on
03/28/2014 6:42:28 PM PDT by
WildHighlander57
((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
To: Kartographer
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.
20 posted on
03/28/2014 6:57:41 PM PDT by
dynachrome
(Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
To: Kartographer
It was helped to be airbourne?!?!?!?!?!?
21 posted on
03/28/2014 7:01:43 PM PDT by
ronnie raygun
(Im missing a jumbo jet with 235 passengers has anyone seen it?)
To: Kartographer; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...
Well, isn’t that just lovely!
PING!
To: Kartographer
If I remember right, Ebola has a recorded outbreak of an airborne strain right here in the U.S. and the strain was named after the town were it was identified, Ebola Reston.
Reston, Virginia was home to a strain that luckily, was only dangerous to simians, but it was airborne, so its not beyond the realm of possibility for a strain to develop that harmful to humans.
To: Kartographer
Lassa Fever and Marburg Viruses were the first two to be recognized and caused the scientific community multitudes of headaches until they realized how infectious they were. I remember that Lassa was brought to the US to a lab at Cornell and someone on the next floor up from the research died from the disease. It seemed it was circulated through the air ducts. It goes with logic that airborne particles of any virus could evade immune systems and establish upon mucous membranes thereby infecting the host. The odds are in the virus’ favor. Ebola is in the same family of viruses as Lassa and Marburg.
These filoviruses are extremely hard to grow in a lab as they obliterate the cell cultures rapidly and make them hard to study. Plus, now the labs that work with them have a myriad of safeguards to protect everyone, unlike when I worked with just gloves and a hood.
To: Kartographer
May God have mercy on our poor souls. Amen.
30 posted on
03/28/2014 7:36:55 PM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Kartographer
There’s a whole lot of nasty diseases that fortunately aren’t airborne transmitted, and hopefully never are, because we would be in a world of hurt.
32 posted on
03/28/2014 7:46:25 PM PDT by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
To: Kartographer
Airborne Ebola would be the most terrifying disease in recorded history.
Society would quickly come undone.
33 posted on
03/28/2014 7:49:43 PM PDT by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Kartographer
I saw a post like this on Free Republic a little while back:
“Crocodiles can climb trees: researchers
Some Freeper says: “Great. As if I didn’t have enough to worry about already.”
43 posted on
03/28/2014 8:39:02 PM PDT by
rlmorel
("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
To: Kartographer
Previously, the only airborne Ebola was Reston, which does not affect people. But a true airborne ebolavirus affecting people is a nightmare.
59 posted on
03/28/2014 11:54:44 PM PDT by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: Kartographer
69 posted on
03/29/2014 6:56:05 PM PDT by
goosie
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