To: Vendome
Well, this year Ebola killed about 2,000 people, laboraty confirmed, world wide.
15,000 people will die, right here in the USA, from MRSA, and how many world wide, this year?
Nope.
Ebola death toll rises to 3,439: WHO
Now, if it really get's loose in the U.S.A., and any other continent, what do you think the final tally will be, annually?
Ebola has a mortality rate of anywhere from 40% to 80%, the mortality rate for MSR is closer to 30% (31.5%).
Ebola is passed by contact with bodily fluids and there are some studies that prove that it can go airborne, at least, inter-species.
Many of the cases of MRSA are a result of surgery or some other type of hospital stay (70%+ in total).
One can turn into a pandemic, the other cannot.
Your analogy between the two is flawed.
74 posted on
10/03/2014 3:48:00 PM PDT by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
No.
Neither can become a pandemic and certainly not an epidemic.
There isn’t a casual way of transmitting the disease like there is for Flu.
It’s transmission is very specific like MRSA and AIDS.
It isn’t even a debate and CDC was on earlier saying the exact same thing but, everyone wants to argue.
As for the mortality rate of 40%-80% that’s quite the spread and I have a guess as to why that swing is so wide.
A variance of more than 5% is not a trustworthy number.
I’ll get back to you on my hypothesis...
76 posted on
10/03/2014 3:55:49 PM PDT by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: SoConPubbie
All right.
WHO says the range is from 25-90% and the reason is several factors and being from Paleo world makes it particularly difficult to deal with.
Of the four who were transported to the USA for treatment, 100% survived and it’s unclear as to why but, they are healthy now.
77 posted on
10/03/2014 3:59:30 PM PDT by
Vendome
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