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> 100-year event that might never come SARS-1 (2003) and MERS are recent coronaviruses, and Ebola re-occurs every other year. SARS-1 had a similar effect on T
by redis_mlc 6y ago
> 100-year event that might never come
SARS-1 (2003) and MERS are recent coronaviruses, and Ebola re-occurs every other year.
SARS-1 had a similar effect on Toronto hospitals as the current COVID-19 on NYC, with staff wiped out.
- redis_mlc 6y agoActually, if anybody knows why Ebola keeps re-occurring every 2-3 years (according to the CDC), I'd be curious to know why. You'd think a disease that fatal (over 50%) would wipe itself out. Or maybe, horrors, it's really that bad! In 2014, the US had a cluster of Ebola cases, and was totally unprepared, with one patient and 2 nurses getting infected: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/nurse-who-caught-ebola-settles-suit-against-dallas-hospital-n672081 https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/nurse... "[nurse] went home in the scrubs she wore while treating Duncan [for Ebola]." That transmission was via an airline passenger from Liberia.