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The GP said "more infectious", not "more lethal". Your comment is violently agreeing with his point.
by ObviousScience 12y ago
The GP said "more infectious", not "more lethal".
Your comment is violently agreeing with his point.
- danieltillett 12y agoYes I know, but I thought it better to explain in a different manner than just point this out. Another way to look at the problem is how optimised the current strain is for human transmission. As a zoonotic virus it is not very likely that Ebola is well adapted for effective human-to-human transmission. We should expect that the more people that it passes through the better adapted to humans Ebola will become and the more difficult it will be to contain. The unknown is we don’t know how well adapted it could become to humans, but personally I would rather not run this experiment in the wild to find out.
- phkahler 12y agoMy point was that more infections would mean less lethal in this case.
- seanflyon 12y agoWhich is a confusing way of putting it because being less lethal would make it kill more people.