Posted on 10/05/2014 3:40:59 PM PDT by markomalley
We could invade Canada like the mexicans and everyone else is doing here.
again the WHGO this time saying travel ban not necessary. Seems they aren’t concerned with containing a virus. Aren’t the WHO and CDC “supposed” to be trying to contain the outbreaks and not spread them? What is their motivation to do the opposite?
Then we must bring it here and help in sharing the pain and suffering./s
From what I remember from reading "The Hot Zone", it may be a very old virus. IIRC the Reston, Virginia facility had a second outbreak after it was decontaminated following the first outbreak. Eventually, the building needed to be demolished, since nobody was willing to place their stock of expensive monkeys at risk. I am not convinced that the virus is as fragile as many experts contend.
Might as well start bring people with Marburg here too! It’s the politically correct thing to do.
O’Bola will draw up an executive order to bring all infected Ugandans to America.
So now we have three distinct filovirus outbreaks at the same time; Ebola Zaire in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, and...; Ebola Congo in Congo Republic; and Marburg in Uganda.
Trying to recall the Bond film villain who said, “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.”
Perhaps you're mixing that up with the virus of the movie "Outbreak", which had those characteristics (esp. the 48 hr meltdown). That's not Ebola, as even the movie pointed out. Ebola is slower than that.
Forgot the “unexpectedly” in their news release. Let’s see, we have Ebola in West Africa, Marburg in Eastern Africa, and Entero D68, formerly in Central America and now in North America....who could have guessed the “unexpected simultaneous explosions of diseases” .... what rotten luck.
This sounds terrible.
You are correct that there are three concurrent distinct outbreaks of Filoviridae, but there is no such species as “Congo”, the outbreak in Congo is also believed to be Zaire ebolavirus. There are currently five known species of the Filoviridae virus family, genus Ebolavirus: Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Reston ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus, Tai Forest ebolavirus, and Zaire ebolavirus. Marburg is a distinct genus of Filoviridae with a single member, Marburg marburgvirus (formerly Lake Victoria marburgvirus).
Just pray it doesn’t spread from Uganda to nearby Kenya!!!
Auric Goldfinger
Are you sure this government would even consider you moving?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
O’bola and his pals will “lock down” American states before they stop the disease from entering the nation.
The average mortality rate of Marburg is about 80%. The average mortality rate of Ebola (all strains) is about 67%. The average mortality rate of Ebola Zaire (the strain involved in both current outbreaks) is about 79%. The mortality of the current outbreak has been less than 60% and is not included in these calculations.
I calculated these averages using the numbers from this Marburg table and the Ebola table here.
You don't want to come down with Ebola or Marburg. Or any other disease that you might get from a bat, for that matter.
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