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When one enterprising doctor treating SARS in Anatolia decided to check the entire population of the village where 2 or 3 had died rather than just the ones who presented symptoms, he found that ALL tested positive. From that we learned, or those of us that saw that bit of information learned, SARS was no more than a moderate flu sort of thing. Ebola is obviously worse but the death rate is probably way overblown because there are likely very many who have the virus or had it with no symptoms, their bodies deleting it from the system smoothly and quickly.


27 posted on 08/14/2014 7:55:14 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: arthurus
> ...the death rate is probably way overblown because there are likely very many who have the virus or had it with no symptoms, their bodies deleting it from the system smoothly and quickly.

I wish you were right, but I don't think you are. The severe hemorrhagic fever viruses like Ebola have been studied enough in other more informed circumstances in the past, that we can know that the quoted death rates for this outbreak are pretty much expected for Ebola virus. There is no large unreported population of infected survivors.

What is not reported because of the horrible conditions in Africa are the additional number of people who are infected, both survivors and those who die. My point is that those unreported people most likely die at the same rate (percentage) as the ones we know about.

30 posted on 08/14/2014 8:23:16 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: arthurus
When one enterprising doctor treating SARS in Anatolia decided to check the entire population of the village where 2 or 3 had died rather than just the ones who presented symptoms, he found that ALL tested positive.

Really? SARS has never been reported in Turkey.

46 posted on 08/15/2014 9:42:27 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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