Posted on 10/02/2014 8:16:57 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The circle of people who have come into contact with Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan is rapidly expanding, jumping from 18 to 80 early today and then leaping to 100, according to Texas health officials.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
But the point is, it was transmitted from animal to human. It’s endemic in animal species.
If it were to become endemic in animal species in this country (because we have wild bats, wild pigs and wild ungulates as well) that would be a game changer.
Hunting season would cease. And most of the farm fields would become ‘interesting’ as there are a LOT of wild pigs in those. And a big concern would be transmissibility to animals we DO butcher and consume. Like cows, pigs, and sheep. Not to mention dogs.
“Huh? Actually the mortality rate for Ebola Zaire in Liberia and Sierra Leone is zero, since that’s not the strain we’re dealing with in the current outbreak.”
Better tell the WHO and the CDC, cause they think it is the Zaire strain.
Act fast, it could be YOU that saves all mankind with your startling revelation. Better yet, fly to Atlanta and go straight to the CDC and tell them in person, It is a short cab ride from the airport, less than 20 minutes.
This could bring down the Dallas economy and if it spreads to another large city, multiply the economic damage to Texas. I’m not saying the economic toll will be greater than the toll the disease takes from human life and freedom.
Good points, all!
Somebody should consider buying them a subscription to the New England Journal of Medicine, because that's not what widely cited peer reviewed studies say.
Phylogenetic analysis of the full-length sequences established a separate clade for the Guinean EBOV strain in a sister relationship with other known EBOV strains. This suggests that the EBOV strain from Guinea has evolved in parallel with the strains from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon from a recent ancestor and has not been introduced from the latter countries into Guinea.
Out of curiosity, what’s the death rate of ebola (you pick the strain!) in the United States at the moment?
Later refuted:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1404505?query=featured_ebola
There is no separate ebola guinea strain.
The death rate will be higher where the prevalence is high
and the tertiary care is low.
Huh? Did you actually read what you posted? The article you cited argues that the strain is different and only distantly related to strains in the Congo.
I want to see some shitheads in DC power come in contact with the disease so they can see it would be wise to close the border and entry into the nation as a public health matter and to remind them that THEY are the public, too.
The man who ripped through the unlocked front door of the White Hut could have exposed the residents to Ebola.
We have wild ungulates???!!!! RUN! /s
Hope he does a big fundraiser in Dallas.
I did.
I cut/pasted the wrong link.
This one is better:
“This approach indicates that the outbreak in Guinea is likely caused by a Zaire ebolavirus lineage that has spread from Central Africa into Guinea and West Africa in recent decades, and does not represent the emergence of a divergent and endemic virus.”
There’s actually quite a bit of contention as to the classification of the strain of ongoing ebola. But the sequence analysis presented in this paper indicate it’s still closest to Zaire strain and likely doesn’t represent an entirely different on (bun, sudan, tai forest, reston)
Lord, I can haz a wild ungulate this bow season?
Actually, Ebola spreads like AIDs spread in Africa. And like AIDs spreads in our inner cities.
With any luck, in Dallas
So true, but their mismanagement of this situation and the border crisis is a big part of how dumb libs may actually kill us all! lol!
There will be soon. On any given day during flu season in a major metro area, there may be no hospital beds available as is.. There are times when all hospitals in an area are on diver. The standard procedure at that time is ambulance rotate through all the hospitals on a rotation schedule, and the hospital is left to deal with what they get....
Add even a small epidemic on top of that and you will see how quickly the system can get swamped and become non functional.
If some of the children are teens and this is in the inner city, homo and hetero sexual contact with multiple partners is possible. This is how AIDS is running rampant in the inner city areas. That taboo knowledge was documented in a documentary I saw last year.
Hunting season would be like it is for CWD areas.
Kill them all.
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