re: Ebola scare. should we ALL be worried?

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Where in hell are these guys getting the invincibility message?

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Low degree of communicability does not equal invincibility. They are two very different things. The disease has a kill rate of 60-90%. That implies that invincibility is not really a consideration. It's fricking lethal. It beats all but a few relatively exotic conditions.

Somehow, however, it has only killed (ETA: 2300) people since it was identified almost 40 years ago. 2300, in the most abject and assbackward conditions imaginable.

Gee I'm no specialist in the field, but my mind is led to certain conclusions--which are apparently backed by near-consensus in the medical community (including that Emory article you linked). High rate of lethality, low rate of fatalities, generally primitive protocols for quarantine (at least when it first hit the scene).

Maybe I'm not seeing the acorns for the trees or the forest for the grass. Or something.