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Why Scientists Say Ebola Will Surge But Then Level Off Before The Disease Can Take Over The World
Forbes ^
| 10/15/2014
| F.D. Flam
Posted on 10/15/2014 2:31:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
10/15/2014 3:28:46 PM PDT
by
Hugin
("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
To: RegulatorCountry
I read a book a few years ago called Return of the Black Death where the authors (Scott & Duncan) researched the plagues of Europe that ran from the 1300s to the 1600s and came to the conclusion that they weren't caused by fleas but a "highly infectious Ebola-like virus transmitted directly from person to person'...and if it were re-emerge now 'with today's highly mobile community the consequences would be catastrophic."
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posted on
10/15/2014 3:34:29 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(NRA)
To: SeekAndFind
The same wizzards who brought us Globull Warming!
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
10/15/2014 3:36:47 PM PDT
by
petercooper
(Liberalism = Amnesty = Open Borders = Illegal Immigration = Ebola = Obama)
To: SeekAndFind
That’s because everyone will be dead.
To: kaehurowing
Me and my family will be fine. We will just has tag this sucker to death and eat are approved veggy meals.
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posted on
10/15/2014 3:48:54 PM PDT
by
jimpick
To: SeekAndFind
It will “run out of fuel” and “burn itself out”. The question is how much “fuel” it will consume before that happens.
http://news.ufl.edu/archive/2014/10/researchers-suggest-ebola-virus-may-be-creating-its-own-immunity.html
29% of those exposed get a clinical case of the disease, with about 21% of exposed individuals dying of the disease. 33% of those exposed have some immune response but never develop symptoms; in other words, they fight it off quickly without ever developing a high fever. 38% of those “exposed” (in the sense of having close, unprotected contact) do not develop any immune response and can be assumed to have gotten lucky.
Based on those numbers, Ebola should run out of “fuel” after somewhere between 1.4 and 3.3 billion people. That may not matter to liberals, who see those victims as sources of CO@ “pollution”, but it matters a great deal to me.
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posted on
10/15/2014 3:57:08 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: RegulatorCountry
This time its bats and Barak Hussein Obama.
One is just an animal the other is an American Hating, batspit crazy, Muzzie with a little communist and fascist thrown in for good measure.
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posted on
10/15/2014 4:15:47 PM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(There is no collateral damage.)
To: SeekAndFind
Think of the impressive sizes of wild dog packs, after the disease expands much.
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posted on
10/15/2014 4:41:21 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: Pollster1
Your percentages add to 121%.
To: The Truth Will Make You Free
29% of those exposed get a clinical case of the disease, with about 21% of exposed individuals dying of the disease. They're supposed to: "29% of those exposed get a clinical case of the disease, with about 21% of exposed individuals dying of the disease." All of those who die of Ebola get a clinical case of the disease before it kills them.
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posted on
10/15/2014 6:08:25 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: LibertarianLiz
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posted on
10/15/2014 7:20:58 PM PDT
by
wtd
To: jimmygrace
How is this of any practical value? I have to get an Ebola infection and survive, then theyre pretty sure that I wont get it again...
No, every year millions of people in the US build antibodies to whatever flu is going around, they were infected just like all those who got sick but they didn't. You can bet there are thousands who have been infected by Ebola but there system beat it without showing any symptoms. Believe me, people are being infected without becoming sick, they're system just kicked it's @#$ right away.
To: 353FMG
The vast majority of the death toll were in just seven years, 1346-1353. Interesting graphic here:
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posted on
10/15/2014 7:28:10 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: LibertarianLiz
Another movie that was done with considerable cooperation from the CDC itself was “Contagion”. If you haven’t seen it you should but I will say you’ll wash your hands a lot more after seeing it!
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:53:11 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
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