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It has a fatality rate of UP TO 80-90%. Some outbreaks it's been as low as 35% and the current outbreak in west Africa has a 65% fatality rate. Ebola isn't sup
by spingsprong 12y ago
It has a fatality rate of UP TO 80-90%. Some outbreaks it's been as low as 35% and the current outbreak in west Africa has a 65% fatality rate.
Ebola isn't super contagious. Way, way more people die from the flu every single year than have died from Ebola ever.
- giardini 12y agoWhile other varieties of Ebola were not very contagious, the current outbreak of Ebola _Zaire_(EZ) is _very_ contagious. EZ spreads by contact, may spread via air (the monkeys in the study cited below apparently inhaled the virus in one form or another), has a long incubation period during which the carrier can pass the virus to others, is mostly fatal, and has no good treatment or cure. Furthermore it has been shown that EZ can be carried by pig populations (it doesn't kill pigs apparently) so now we need to worry about our pigs too: http://healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/pigs-monkeys-ebola-goes-airborne-112112 http://healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/pigs-monkeys-... Combine this with the poor conditions at immigration centers and it looks to me like an oncoming "cluster f*sck" SNAFU for the USA. I fear incoming EV may far outstrip Iraq/Syria in significance but see little activity or awareness at the political level.