Spinoff: "we're coming for you..."....related to the Ebola virus.

Are you guys serious??

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Are you saying this is beyond the rhelm of possibility?

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No, very little is impossible, but the probability is pretty low. It is mainly in 3 African countries now in extremely poor areas. They are having a very hard time keeping it under control because the government isn't helping keeping the infected population isolated. Right now it isn't exactly in areas where you will see people flying internationally, which would be the way it spread. Not saying it isn't a very dangerous situation but I don't think we need to worry about it in relation to our southern border and to to tie it in any way to Islam is nuts.

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Read Rainbow Six

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Yeah, yeah, and all the other books... Ebola is really not that easily spread, it isn't an airborne virus. You generally have to be in contact with bodily fluids. That's why isolation works in containing the spread.

If want to really be scared, read The Hot Zone by Richard Preston.

It's scary to really think of the possible implications.

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a deadly outbreak would be catastrophic.

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Every outbreak would be deadly. But why would you suggest it would be catastrophic? Most outbreaks have occurred in tiny African villages with next to 0% access to medical care, yet little more than a village has ever been affected.

Also, as said, the virus is spread by direct contact with bodily fluids. In a hospital like any in the US, the patient would be locked in a room and the only people to access that room would go through wildly extensive decontamination before and after. It's a whole different story than the medical camps set up by the WHO in the few isolated outbreaks there have been.

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Considering 13% of Americans have no access to any medical care, a deadly outbreak would be catastrophic.

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I thought Obamacare made health care available to all?

The virus in Rainbow Six had been altered and weaponized, it was not just Ebola.

According to the literature I've read, the average incubation period is 4-6 days. That doesn't give a potential disease vector much time to get where he's going and start spreading the virus around before he gets noticeably sick. And as others have said, it's not that easily transmissable.