Where Does Ebola Hide Between Epidemics?

National Geographic ^ | February 19, 2003 | Stefan Lovgren

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Where Does Ebola Hide Between Epidemics?

Iraq?

[Dog Gone]

The prospect of migratory birds carrying Ebola has obvious health implications.

Beware of African Swallows.

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Damm straight! If they can carry a coconut, God knows what else they could carry...

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In monkeys that are inmmune to it.(?) (Don't eat the monkeys!)

[sd-joe]

"All the Ebola subtypes have shown the ability to be spread through airborne particles"

"Ebola is one of the most contagious viruses known to man. A simple handshake can transmit the disease. Depending on the strain, Ebola kills anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of its victims through massive internal bleeding. Worst of all, there is no cure."

Sounds like something to worry about, even more than smallpox.

[Dog Gone]

One strand, Ebola-Reston, may have been transmitted from monkey to monkey through the air in a Virginia science lab.

I'm losing interest in becoming a lab worker in Virginia.

[Centurion2000]

Ebola is one of the most contagious viruses known to man. A simple handshake can transmit the disease.

This is actually B$ ... ebola does not have a decent protein coat to survive as an airborne or contact disease well. Body fluids exchange or close contact is what it take to spread ebola.

If it ever does go airborn like the flu or like smallpox, God help us all because it will get out of Africa and kill billions.

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No guts, no glory...

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It's no accident my counter protest sign says:

Save Billions of lives
Stop Saddam now!

[Dog Gone]

[lorrainer]

Bump for later

[Rebelbase]

There is a Tom Clancy book about a group who develops a resistant strain of ebola for use in a world epidemic.

Can't remember the title.

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Executive Orders.

[SauronOfMordor]

There is a Tom Clancy book about a group who develops a resistant strain of ebola for use in a world epidemic.

By Muslim group in "Executive orders", and there's an environmentalist group that tries to wipe out all of mankind (except for the elite like them) in "Rainbow Six"

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Now you can start worrying, if this is true. (It's always something!)

Purdue Research Hints That Birds Could Spread Ebola Virus

[Chancellor Palpatine]

There is a much better nonfiction book on Ebola that is both exciting and informative called "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston (he also just released one, "The Demon in the Freezer", covering smallpox, anthrax, biowar, Iraq, the French, etc. It's phenomenal, and blesters the French). I recommend it highly.

[blam]

Let's go ahead and link all the scary 'stuff' together.

5 Who Died had Flu-Like symptoms

[XRdsRev]

"The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston is probably the best factual book on the Ebola virus. It was published in 1994 so it is a bit out of date but it provides great background on some of the initial African outbreaks and the episode at the Reston Virginia Primate facility.

If the human lethal type of this virus develops the ability to spread via air, we're screwed.

And it ain't a pretty way to die.

[Rebelbase]

SauronOfMordor got it on #15. Exec. orders was about the Islamic Nuke. Rainbow Six was the one with the envirowackos and ebola.