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Rew says

Of all previous outbreaks has Ebola been contained?

A new word to add to the vernacular, endemic. The problem with endemic is that it gets that much more chance to mutate into an aerosol form.

Call it Crazy says

Yes I think this applies well, to threads you take over.

Call it Crazy says

It's reported by WHO as a variant, but since I'm not a scientist, I don't know how much it "varies" from the previous strains.

It's pretty darn close from what I can see. 1990s flavor, uptake into zoo, and then down to Humans now. They will narrow it even closer I'm sure. I'm sure this thing is in hundreds of labs right now.
http://epidemic.bio.ed.ac.uk/ebolavirus_phylogeny

Call it Crazy says

Lethal, yes a 50%+ CFR.... Fast??, it's incubation is longer that some other viruses... Fast only comes in after symptoms show and how quick you die.

Currently believed you have very low viral count and are not infectious while asymptomatic. Take AIDS instead, a really slow killer, but related. You sit undetected, spread like crazy, and then knock people over after a long time. That's actually a positive for why it is less likely to spread. Also it has really noticeable symptoms! Ebola starts popping up everywhere, you feel like you have soar throat and flu, you quarantine yourself. It's not stealthy.

Call it Crazy says

You're claiming First World healthcare and facilities here, but the Dallas case shows we aren't any better.

Because we couldn't cure an incurable disease picked up in a foreign country? Of course we can catch it ... but again, so far, no transmission. Let's see how well we do.

Call it Crazy says

I'm NOT optimistic that our medical professionals and facilities can handle multiple cases. That's based on first hand experience working in the healthcare field.

I'll repeat what I've already said: I'm NOT concerned about the actual Ebola virus at all.

I'm more concerned on the countries inability to handle multiple cases and the government's knee-jerk reactions to the fear and response to the outcry of the general public.

And you think regurgitating the MSM is helpful to that cause?

Call it Crazy says

The latest report from her was that she thinks she touched her glove to her face.

That's right. And look at what it was yesterday.

What do you think the car wash guy's reason is going to be tomorrow? It could be spray back, but odds are far better for contact.

And yes, beat a dead horse example above.

So just stop it CiC. Do your part.

BenghazebolaHusseinCabronObama says

Bgamall, is that you?

Best laugh I've had in a long time.

I with Patrick.net had the ability for a moderator, to close a thread. This one has become unwieldy and useless.

Vicente says

I with Patrick.net had the ability for a moderator, to close a thread. This one has become unwieldy and useless.

Translation:

I have been thoroughly beaten in this debate

"While you dorks worry about Federal Reserve or the price of milk...."

I think you've got that backwards!

Ironman says

Only in America, send a clean-up crew in to mop up high contagious Ebola vomit, give them a power washer so they can blow it all over the place. Oh, and don't give them any personal protection equipment....

But, some people here feel that the authorities have everything under control and there is no chance of it spreading...

Sure.....

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Happy 2 year anniversary to the ebola powerwash hysteria, brought to us by our resident dipshit, CIC!!!

This ancient dweller in the blood never ceases to amaze.

Those reports of plagues being released by the perma frost melting in Siberia have been fascinating too. For our sake, I hope humans don't come into any more contact with super primitive diseases. As we tread over parts of the Earth we haven't been, or as parts of the Earth become re-exposed to potential human contact, things tend to not go very well for us in the infectious diseases department.

I'm sure the Trump administration will "win" if there was a flare up too. (gulp) They would be very willing to look at what Obama did, a massive success for the West African ebola response, and learn from that right? I mean, they wouldn't use a crisis of that type to stoke xenophobic fear and nationalism right?