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Posted: 5/16/2017 1:46:51 PM EDT

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Is it happening?

Posted: 5/16/2017 1:47:58 PM EDT

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Remember the first time? They showed live video of the ambulance taking the Ebola from the airport to the hospital. All it would have taken was one explosion under or an RPG into that ambulance to spew Ebola all over.

That was the worst part for me.

Posted: 5/16/2017 1:48:28 PM EDT

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WE ALL GON' DIE

Posted: 5/16/2017 1:56:05 PM EDT

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Crazy shit....

panic will ensue if it makes it to the US....

Posted: 5/16/2017 1:57:50 PM EDT

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All the more reason for tighter immigration controls

Posted: 5/16/2017 1:58:56 PM EDT

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Like last time it made it here?

Posted: 5/16/2017 2:00:48 PM EDT

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I doubt immigrants would cause an outbreak. The average traveler is the real threat

Posted: 5/16/2017 2:01:19 PM EDT

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Were all going to die!

Posted: 5/16/2017 2:04:01 PM EDT

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That is a true statement, unless you know a way to live forever.

Posted: 5/16/2017 2:06:52 PM EDT

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The worldwide death toll from the last Ebola outbreak was 11,315 people.

Tuberculosis kills that many people every two days.

Call me when something important happens.

Posted: 5/16/2017 2:11:19 PM EDT

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I take it you are the one who makes the body bags?

Posted: 5/16/2017 2:18:31 PM EDT

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"A 2012 outbreak in northeast Congo killed 36 people and was blamed on tainted bushmeat."

Posted: 5/16/2017 2:29:07 PM EDT

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Nope, aluminum tube biohazard logistics.

Posted: 5/16/2017 2:52:14 PM EDT

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Missionaries are going to bring back Ebola. I can feel it.

Posted: 5/16/2017 2:53:59 PM EDT

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Admittedly I don't ride subways a lot but do people routinely drink the body fluids of sick looking passengers?

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Last time, some goofball who arrived in NYC, took a subway from the airport to his home and then went to a public restaurant to have dinner. Can you imagine if that spread to everyone who came in contact with that dude during his subway traveling and then passing it on second-hand to everyone else? It would be an outbreak.

Admittedly I don't ride subways a lot but do people routinely drink the body fluids of sick looking passengers?

Do you not?

Posted: 5/16/2017 2:54:19 PM EDT

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First I've heard of this, and I'm in Africa.

I haven't kept up with the news because I haven't been feeling well.

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Posted: 5/16/2017 3:05:53 PM EDT

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Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop eating bush meat

Posted: 5/16/2017 3:15:39 PM EDT

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This could be worse than Y2K.

Posted: 5/16/2017 3:20:02 PM EDT

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Isn't "bushmeat" what we would call "wild game" in this country?

Posted: 5/16/2017 3:21:50 PM EDT

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Nope, aluminum tube biohazard logistics.

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You mean like those big canisters in The Cassandra Crossing?

Posted: 5/16/2017 3:22:01 PM EDT

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In!!!!

Posted: 5/16/2017 3:27:09 PM EDT

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Isn't "bushmeat" what we would call "wild game" in this country?

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Monkey meat

Posted: 5/16/2017 3:34:38 PM EDT

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Well time to open our borders and let all the Ebola patients into our hospitals.

Posted: 5/16/2017 3:39:29 PM EDT

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ABCNEWS:

The World Health Organization, which first reported the outbreak last week, said Monday that 19 people are suspected of developing Ebola infections and three of the patients have died in the remote Bas Uele province. Despite attempts to trace contacts and stop the disease, the WHO reported the "national risk" for the DRC is "high."

Posted: 5/16/2017 3:40:26 PM EDT

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Isn't "bushmeat" what we would call "wild game" in this country?

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Yeah if you eat baboon ass.

Posted: 5/16/2017 3:52:32 PM EDT

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I was way off with my guess of what bushmeat was...

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:04:23 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/16/2017 4:09:43 PM EDT

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Caption under the graphic says "do not touch or eat animals that are dead or sick."

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:20:27 PM EDT

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Arfcom's Razor says so.

Or, we can just isolate the infected, intervene to prevent traditional burial practices, and everything will be just fine.

Meh, whatever, that sounds boring. Let's elevate this to DEFCON 1, lock the doors, and throw people off the rooftops ... just to be safe.

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:28:29 PM EDT

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Meh, until I see them black Gulfstreams flying around.....

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:31:49 PM EDT

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Just waiting for the day this thing goes all Marburg on us - airborne infection spread, a worst case scenario if ever there was one.

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Have you heard of the Reston strain?

The Hot Zone is a great read about this BTW.

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:34:23 PM EDT

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Have you heard of the Reston strain?

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We have a member here who was on the Reston team IIRC

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:35:28 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/16/2017 4:35:35 PM EDT

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Ebola, Ebola, Ebola

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:36:03 PM EDT

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Damn, just when I thought swine flu was going to make a comeback Ebola comes along and takes the stage again.

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I thought it was bird flu time?

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:36:30 PM EDT

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Ebola is a pretty nasty scary virus. I think it kills its victims too fast usually to be much of a pandemic though. Sorry guys, this probably isn't your zombie apocalypse.

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:37:35 PM EDT

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Africa has too many mouths to feed, this is accounts being balanced.

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:41:27 PM EDT

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Ebola is a pretty nasty scary virus. I think it kills its victims too fast usually to be much of a pandemic though. Sorry guys, this probably isn't your zombie apocalypse.

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Until it mutates/evolves

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:42:08 PM EDT

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Africa has too many mouths to feed, this is accounts being balanced.

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For a starving, disease ridden populace (in certain areas) they sure do reproduce don't they.

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:48:38 PM EDT

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PC has taken over so they can't say "Stop Fucking Monkeys and then eating them. Stay away from the sick bats too, they're easier to catch because they are dying, morons"

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:48:53 PM EDT

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For a starving, disease ridden populace (in certain areas) they sure do reproduce don't they.

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Africa has too many mouths to feed, this is accounts being balanced.

For a starving, disease ridden populace (in certain areas) they sure do reproduce don't they.

This phenomena occurs in America, too.

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:52:43 PM EDT

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Have you heard of the Reston strain?

The Hot Zone is a great read about this BTW.

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Just waiting for the day this thing goes all Marburg on us - airborne infection spread, a worst case scenario if ever there was one.

Have you heard of the Reston strain?

The Hot Zone is a great read about this BTW.

Yes. But Reston affected Monkeys (killed) and made a janitor sick with something like the flu.
Marburg kills people, and is an airborn infection spread like Reston.
The day Marburg shows up on our doorstep it's going to be disastrous.

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:53:54 PM EDT

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Arfcom's Razor says so.

Or, we can just isolate the infected, intervene to prevent traditional burial practices, and everything will be just fine.

Meh, whatever, that sounds boring. Let's elevate this to DEFCON 1, lock the doors, and throw people off the rooftops ... just to be safe.

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Arfcom's Razor says so.

Or, we can just isolate the infected, intervene to prevent traditional burial practices, and everything will be just fine.

Meh, whatever, that sounds boring. Let's elevate this to DEFCON 1, lock the doors, and throw people off the rooftops ... just to be safe.

This is a GD Africa thread, so logic and reasoned opinions have no place here.

Due to the population densities in the DRC the severity of an outbreak is typically not nearly as bad as what we saw in Liberia and the surrounding countries.

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:53:57 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/16/2017 4:54:00 PM EDT

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Ebola is a pretty nasty scary virus. I think it kills its victims too fast usually to be much of a pandemic though. Sorry guys, this probably isn't your zombie apocalypse.

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That is what the people in GD who seemed to know what they were talking about said last time. It kills too fast and will burn it's self out.

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:54:31 PM EDT

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Ebola must bring balance back to the force.

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:56:07 PM EDT

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Until it mutates/evolves

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But evolution isn't real. It's just a trick by The Devil to test our faith.

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:58:02 PM EDT

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Given that we have a vaccine that's highly effective at worst, and perhaps 100% effective, ebola is no longer the scare to the US that it once was.

Posted: 5/16/2017 4:58:30 PM EDT

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That is what the people in GD who seemed to know what they were talking about said last time. It kills too fast and will burn it's self out.

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Ebola is a pretty nasty scary virus. I think it kills its victims too fast usually to be much of a pandemic though. Sorry guys, this probably isn't your zombie apocalypse.

That is what the people in GD who seemed to know what they were talking about said last time. It kills too fast and will burn it's self out.

That is what happens when it occurs in areas with low population densities. What made the previous outbreak severe was that it occurred in high density areas. The DRC is sparsely populated with little infrastructure to allow for the disease to easily spread.