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Posted on 9/14/14 at 8:08 am to Kentucker
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It's likely to become airborne and will probably spread much further than West Africa
People with no fricking clue like you are much more dangerous than ebola.
Posted on 9/14/14 at 8:32 am to Kentucker
The trillions of throws of genetic dice comment actually makes me not worry about it too much. If each event is independent of another in terms if mutation (as the "sloppy mutation" comment would make it seem, then it is no more likely to become airborne in the next 70 years than it was in the previous 70
Posted on 9/14/14 at 9:04 am to BluegrassBelle
quote:The biggest reason is due to the average demographic that is typically infected. This West African outbreak is the first to really see Ebola show up in urban areas and large population centers.
That said, why hasn't it spread here despite African immigrants from those countries even in it's non-airborne form?
In the past, the outbreaks have been in the bush, and most of the infected stay in their village and die without contact with the outside world. It has kept the contact between infected and the greater population to a minimum. This has also meant that outbreaks burn out pretty quickly because there are no enough hosts for it to have a continued run.
This outbreak with it getting into population centers could change how far it spreads. This is also the most sustained outbreak in length of time as well.
Posted on 9/14/14 at 9:22 am to 870Hog
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Create vaccine and let it mutate to airborne and demolish the middle east and Africa while withholding said vaccine.
I'd go a step further and make the vaccine affordable only to middle class Americans and up so all the poors and leeches die off. Then we can finally balance the budget with no entitlement spending
Nothing like a good population purge to right the ship
Posted on 9/14/14 at 9:25 am to Kentucker
I think we should just nuke africa. That would wipe it out.
Posted on 9/14/14 at 11:25 am to cave canem
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People with no fricking clue like you are much more dangerous than ebola.
Actually, I think your biggest worry should be the sand in your mangina.
Posted on 9/14/14 at 11:50 am to PJinAtl
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This West African outbreak is the first to really see Ebola show up in urban areas and large population centers.
I was naive to think that most on this board understood that Ebola had never before been found in a densely packed human population. The West Point slum of Monrovia has some 75,000 people packed into a couple of square miles, for example.
The Liberian government has sealed off the area and will not let anyone enter or leave West Point. The slum amounts to a crucible for Ebola to evolve into a strain with a more efficient human-to-human mode of transmission, namely airborne.
While all virologists know this is a possibility, few, like Dr. Osterholm, are willing to speak publicly to the subject. To me, this ostrich-head-in-the-sand approach is denying attention to the West African outbreak that it deserves.
Ebola has a new environment, dense population centers, in which to thrive and evolve. If it gets established in Lagos, a megacity of 21 million, Ebola may become the plague many have been predicting since the Spanish flu of 1918.
We shouldn't be arguing the minutiae of its evolution. We should be assuming the worst from its effects and adopting a much more global interest in stopping it. I think the people of 5 West African nations are already on board with that idea.
This post was edited on 9/14/14 at 11:56 am
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