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To: null and void

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.”


27 posted on 10/05/2014 5:22:59 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

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).


32 posted on 10/05/2014 6:14:26 PM PDT by LambSlave
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To: Covenantor

Auric Goldfinger


34 posted on 10/05/2014 6:43:43 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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