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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." View Quote 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 11,235 LINK <Thread title change: This is now the OFFICIAL thread for Ebola in Africa - Z> |
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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... |
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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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It would really be scary to see what a pandemic would look like in modern culture.
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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... View Quote 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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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. Fictional virus, funny the electron micrographs they used for the movie were actual Ebola images. |
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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... View Quote Absolutely false. It never infected any humans. We go through this every time we have an Ebola thread. |
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Quoted: 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. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 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. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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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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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... View Quote On 11 December 2008, pigs from farms slightly north of Manila, Philippines tested positive for the virus. The CDC and the World Health Organization are investigating.[18] On 23 January 2009, Philippine health officials announced that a hog farm worker had been infected with the virus. Although the man was asymptomatic and the source of the infection is uncertain, this could represent the first case of pig-to-human transmission of Reston virus - a fact that could cause concern, as pigs may be able to transmit more deadly diseases to humans. The situation is undergoing further investigation.[19] |
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Some guy is in a lab right now trying to combine ebola and bird flu. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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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... |
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It's harder than one might imagine to get a monkey with ebola and a chicken with the flu to make sweet, sweet love... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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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... Just add a pig. |
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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... Just add a pig. And some wine...with a few candles and some Barry White on the Ipod.. |
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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. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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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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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... Just add a pig. And some sweet lovemaking music. |
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Absolutely false. It never infected any humans. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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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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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? View Quote Ebola isn't airborne. It can only survive in bodily fluids. |
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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... View Quote 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. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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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? Ebola isn't airborne. It can only survive in bodily fluids. Bodily fluids, you say? |
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It's harder than one might imagine to get a monkey with ebola and a chicken with the flu to make sweet, sweet love... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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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... 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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