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Posted: 6/23/2014 2:57:18 PM EDT
Dakar (AFP) - An epidemic of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa is now "out of control" with more than 60 outbreak hotspots, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Monday.

"The scale of the current Ebola epidemic is unprecedented in terms of geographical distribution, people infected and deaths," MSF said in a statement.

The rapid spread of the disease, which is deadly in up to 90 percent of cases, has overwhelmed aid agencies and health workers and terrified local communities.

"The epidemic is now out of control," said Bart Janssens, MSF director of operations. "With the appearance of new sites in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, there is a real risk of it spreading to other areas."
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337 1,229 1,552 2,296 2,400+ 2,622 3,091 3,375 4,033 dead so far this year.

Make that 4,447 4,546.

4,951

8,429


8,981


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Day 1
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Ebola is obviously racist.
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That was Motaba.
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You guys ever heard of the Reston strain? It was airborne and managed to infect some humans, but they showed no clinical signs of infection because it was not harmful to humans.

It was called Reston because it happened in Virginia.

So I believe it's only a matter of time before a filovirus with a significant mortality rate becomes airborne...
Link Posted: 6/23/2014 3:04:38 PM EDT
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Is read it is a very close strain to E.Zaire... Bad news..
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  That was Motaba.
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  That was Motaba.

Still a great movie though. Slightly applicable to the situation.
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God help us if that shit breaks loose.

It's bad enough that Jackson, Sharpton, and Farakhan got out. Imagine something that is 90+ % fatal to any human who contracts it...
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Ebola kills so fast it is doubtful it would turn into a mass epidemic. That and it is not airborne, yet.
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grumpycatgood.jpg

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It would really be scary to see what a pandemic would look like in modern culture.
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It will save this country.

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You guys ever heard of the Reston strain? It was airborne and managed to infect some humans, but they showed no clinical signs of infection because it was not harmful to humans.

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So I believe it's only a matter of time before a filovirus with a significant mortality rate becomes airborne...
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They tore that lab down several years back - literally sterilizing *EVERYTHING* as they tore it down, treating
it as a bio-hazard site, and from what I was told, doubled-down and sent the debris to an incinerator, just to
be sure.
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#endebolanow



 
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#dead
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And the two who are in America were released from quarantine.  They want us dead.
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Still a great movie though. Slightly applicable to the situation.
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Still a great movie though. Slightly applicable to the situation.

Fictional virus, funny the electron micrographs they used for the movie were actual Ebola images.
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Meh, we need to thin the herd.
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It was called Reston because it happened in Virginia.

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Absolutely false. It never infected any humans.

We go through this every time we have an Ebola thread.
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#endebolanow
 

You, sir, win the Internets for today.
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Good.
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They tore that lab down several years back - literally sterilizing *EVERYTHING* as they tore it down, treating

it as a bio-hazard site, and from what I was told, doubled-down and sent the debris to an incinerator, just to

be sure.
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You guys ever heard of the Reston strain? It was airborne and managed to infect some humans, but they showed no clinical signs of infection because it was not harmful to humans.



It was called Reston because it happened in Virginia.



So I believe it's only a matter of time before a filovirus with a significant mortality rate becomes airborne...


They tore that lab down several years back - literally sterilizing *EVERYTHING* as they tore it down, treating

it as a bio-hazard site, and from what I was told, doubled-down and sent the debris to an incinerator, just to

be sure.


I read about it in "The Hot Zone", scary stuff.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone
 
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Absolutely false. It never infected any humans.

We go through this every time we have an Ebola thread.
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You guys ever heard of the Reston strain? It was airborne and managed to infect some humans, but they showed no clinical signs of infection because it was not harmful to humans.

It was called Reston because it happened in Virginia.

So I believe it's only a matter of time before a filovirus with a significant mortality rate becomes airborne...


Absolutely false. It never infected any humans.

We go through this every time we have an Ebola thread.


But, we are just a mutation away from this.
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Honestly let's say hypothetically New York gets the unlucky plane.  Infected guy walks down through town and he has some jungle killing Ebola in every cough.  Not to mention the 100+ on the plane with him.  How fast would it spread in the States?  What PPE is required to improve your chances?
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Cue Don't Fear the Reaper.
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Randall Flagg
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Some guy is in a lab right now trying to combine ebola and bird flu.
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Some guy is in a lab right now trying to combine ebola and bird flu.


It's harder than one might imagine to get a monkey with ebola and a chicken with the flu to make sweet, sweet love...
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They tore that lab down several years back - literally sterilizing *EVERYTHING* as they tore it down, treating
it as a bio-hazard site, and from what I was told, doubled-down and sent the debris to an incinerator, just to
be sure.
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You guys ever heard of the Reston strain? It was airborne and managed to infect some humans, but they showed no clinical signs of infection because it was not harmful to humans.

It was called Reston because it happened in Virginia.

So I believe it's only a matter of time before a filovirus with a significant mortality rate becomes airborne...

They tore that lab down several years back - literally sterilizing *EVERYTHING* as they tore it down, treating
it as a bio-hazard site, and from what I was told, doubled-down and sent the debris to an incinerator, just to
be sure.



"At the end of the day, the laboratory was the only place on Earth where nothing, NOTHING, lived." - paraphrased from "The Hot Zone".
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Just add a pig.
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Some guy is in a lab right now trying to combine ebola and bird flu.


It's harder than one might imagine to get a monkey with ebola and a chicken with the flu to make sweet, sweet love...


Just add a pig.


And some sweet lovemaking music.
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Absolutely false. It never infected any humans.
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You guys ever heard of the Reston strain? It was airborne and managed to infect some humans, but they showed no clinical signs of infection because it was not harmful to humans.

It was called Reston because it happened in Virginia.

So I believe it's only a matter of time before a filovirus with a significant mortality rate becomes airborne...

Absolutely false. It never infected any humans.

According to the book, some humans did in fact test positive for antibodies to the ebola virus, so they'd apparently been infected.  Just that that particular strain wasn't particularly harmful to humans.

It's probably just a matter of time before there's a strain, like Reston, that is airborne transmissible and that is deadly to humans.

There is, or used to be, a member of this website who was on the Reston cleanup/decontamination detail.
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White privilege.
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Honestly let's say hypothetically New York gets the unlucky plane.  Infected guy walks down through town and he has some jungle killing Ebola in every cough.  Not to mention the 100+ on the plane with him.  How fast would it spread in the States?  What PPE is required to improve your chances?
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Ebola isn't airborne. It can only survive in bodily fluids.
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The promise of mass efficient and fast transportation.
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Ebola kills so fast it is doubtful it would turn into a mass epidemic. That and it is not airborne, yet.



Some guy is in a lab right now trying to combine ebola and bird flu.


It's harder than one might imagine to get a monkey with ebola and a chicken with the flu to make sweet, sweet love...


You just need to get them in the mood, children. Try some sultry music.

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White privilege.
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White privilege.


White blood cells are racists
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Thank God I finally got my 1000 rounds of 75 grain ammo...
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Yeah, that's all fine and good when you're not in the herd. Change of opinion maybe when you are part of the herd. That's big city thinking...
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No joke, I was working in an office building just up the street when this happened. Saw the sealed containers they were removing from the buidling they were using for a lab.
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Ebola isn't airborne. It can only survive in bodily fluids.
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Ebola isn't airborne. It can only survive in bodily fluids.


Bodily fluids, you say?





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Some guy is in a lab right now trying to combine ebola and bird flu.


It's harder than one might imagine to get a monkey with ebola and a chicken with the flu to make sweet, sweet love...


Quaaludes.
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"The incurable disease is spread by contact with bodily fluids including
sweat, meaning just touching an infected person is enough to spread the
virus."





Awesome.
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