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Ebola nightmare for the night
Posted on 10/11/14 at 12:07 am
Posted on 10/11/14 at 12:07 am
The economist has an article stating how the threat to Ebola in the US is overblown. One of the comments to that article goes in detail of what happens to an Ebola victim. This is only a third of the description:
Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. It is a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles. The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself. Small blood clots begin to appear in the bloodstream, and the blood thickens and slows, and the clots begin to stick to the walls of blood vessels. This is known as pavementing, because the clots fit together in a mosaic. The mosaic thickens and throws more clots, and the clots drift through the bloodstream into “the small capillaries, where they get stuck. This shuts off the blood supply to various parts of the body, causing dead spots to appear in the brain, liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines, testicles, breast tissue (of men as well as women), and all through the skin. The skin develops red spots, called petechiae, which are hemorrhages under the skin. Ebola attacks connective tissue with particular ferocity; it multiplies in collagen, the chief constituent protein of the tissue that holds the organs together. (The seven Ebola proteins somehow chew up the body’s structural proteins.) In this way, collagen in the body turns to mush, and the underlayers of the skin die and liquefy. The skin bubbles up into a sea of tiny white blisters mixed with red spots known as a maculopapular rash. This rash has been likened to tapioca pudding. Spontaneous rips appear in the skin, and he“hemorrhagic blood pours from the rips. The red spots on the skin grow and spread and merge to become huge, spontaneous bruises, and the skin goes soft and pulpy, and can tear off if it is touched with any kind of pressure. Your mouth bleeds, and you bleed around your teeth, and you may have hemorrhages from the salivary glands—literally every opening in the body bleeds, no matter how small. The surface of the tongue turns brilliant red and then sloughs off, and is swallowed or spat out.
I then did a google search for "people with Ebola . Lets just say don't do this at midnight.
Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. It is a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles. The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself. Small blood clots begin to appear in the bloodstream, and the blood thickens and slows, and the clots begin to stick to the walls of blood vessels. This is known as pavementing, because the clots fit together in a mosaic. The mosaic thickens and throws more clots, and the clots drift through the bloodstream into “the small capillaries, where they get stuck. This shuts off the blood supply to various parts of the body, causing dead spots to appear in the brain, liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines, testicles, breast tissue (of men as well as women), and all through the skin. The skin develops red spots, called petechiae, which are hemorrhages under the skin. Ebola attacks connective tissue with particular ferocity; it multiplies in collagen, the chief constituent protein of the tissue that holds the organs together. (The seven Ebola proteins somehow chew up the body’s structural proteins.) In this way, collagen in the body turns to mush, and the underlayers of the skin die and liquefy. The skin bubbles up into a sea of tiny white blisters mixed with red spots known as a maculopapular rash. This rash has been likened to tapioca pudding. Spontaneous rips appear in the skin, and he“hemorrhagic blood pours from the rips. The red spots on the skin grow and spread and merge to become huge, spontaneous bruises, and the skin goes soft and pulpy, and can tear off if it is touched with any kind of pressure. Your mouth bleeds, and you bleed around your teeth, and you may have hemorrhages from the salivary glands—literally every opening in the body bleeds, no matter how small. The surface of the tongue turns brilliant red and then sloughs off, and is swallowed or spat out.
I then did a google search for "people with Ebola . Lets just say don't do this at midnight.
Posted on 10/11/14 at 12:17 am to lsulaker
I don't want to contract Ebola.
Posted on 10/11/14 at 12:19 am to Charlie Arglist
quote:Wuss.
I don't want to contract Ebola.
Scruffy eats Ebola for breakfast.
Posted on 10/11/14 at 12:20 am to lsulaker
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Posted on 10/11/14 at 12:20 am to Scruffy
quote:
Wuss.
Scruffy eats Ebola for breakfast.
I can only eat it if I have a beer chaser.
Posted on 10/11/14 at 12:25 am to lsulaker
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Posted on 10/11/14 at 12:49 am to lsulaker
Yeah, it's not cool. You should read about Marburg
Posted on 10/11/14 at 12:57 am to lsulaker
I rest assured knowing Ebola has been around for a long time and usually runs its course in Africa before dying out. Flu and colds on the other hand run amuck in the US (with better sanitary conditions). I don't trust the Govt worth a crap but do believe ebola is probably easily contained. I sure as hell hope I am right because it is nasty shite and doesn't play.
Posted on 10/11/14 at 1:24 am to ShermanTxTiger
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believe ebola is probably easily contained. I sure as hell hope I am right
Oh, I am resigned to dying from it. The more it multiplies, the more chance it has to mutate and become airborne.
LINK
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...Ebola Reston, which was transmitted among monkeys by breathing. In 2012, Canadian researchers found that Ebola Zaire, which is involved in the current outbreak, was passed from pigs to monkeys in the air.
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One group of researchers looked at how Ebola changed over a short period of time in just one area in Sierra Leone early on in the outbreak, before it was spreading as fast as it is now. They found more than 300 genetic changes in the virus.
"It's frightening to look at how much this virus mutated within just three weeks," said Dr. Pardis Sabeti, an associate professor at Harvard and senior associate member of the Broad Institute, where the research was done.
I'm afraid that trying to treat people who have contracted it is like Lizzie playing with the walkers.
Posted on 10/11/14 at 1:54 am to Spock's Eyebrow
No no. It's OK and we will be all right.
The government guy on the TV said so.
The government guy on the TV said so.
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