re: A Dallas hospital worker now has Ebola

Remember to consider the ambidextrous batting: doubles the tally.

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See...I start it off in Madagascar

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My problem spot typically is the carribean/cuba though.

THAT DOESN'T HELP MUCH WHEN YOU ARE PLAYING FUNGI

Two questions:


Do you think there are mosquitos in Africa?

If so, and if they can transmit the virus, don't you think there would be more than the 8000 infected they have had over the past year?

What PPE did she have is my question?

Plastic gown and gloves with no shoe or leg covers?

Or what the CDC wore when they took that guy off the plane 3-4 days ago?

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I find it kind of funny how EVERY article written about the disease and someone who contracts it always says "you can only get Ebola through direct contact with the body fluids of an infected person" and "only when they are showing symptoms". In reality, nobody has a clue. There's just not enough evidence to truly know.

Holy shite. Is this post real?

Are some of y'all going full retard?

The answer to that question is yes.

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Everything we "know" is true up to the point that it is no longer true. There's both mechanism and precedent for the invalidation of what we "know".

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.

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These discussions remind me of the one between Rabi and Fermi on the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction; I'm with Rabi on this one:

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I said to him: "Did you talk to Fermi?" Rabi said, "Yes, I did." I said, "What did Fermi say?" Rabi said, "Fermi said 'Nuts!'" So I said, "Why did he say 'Nuts!'?" and Rabi said, "Well, I don't know, but he is in and we can ask him." So we went over to Fermi's office, and Rabi said to Fermi, "Look, Fermi, I told you what Szilard thought and you said ‘Nuts!' and Szilard wants to know why you said ‘Nuts!'" So Fermi said, "Well… there is the remote possibility that neutrons may be emitted in the fission of uranium and then of course perhaps a chain reaction can be made." Rabi said, "What do you mean by ‘remote possibility'?" and Fermi said, "Well, ten per cent." Rabi said, "Ten per cent is not a remote possibility if it means that we may die of it. If I have pneumonia and the doctor tells me that there is a remote possibility that I might die, and it's ten percent, I get excited about it." (Quoted in 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb' by Richard Rhodes.)

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Of course I have no idea what the chance is here, but all those people comforted by statements like "So far, only 4000 have died out of 7 billion" should realize that in prior outbreaks, people were comforted by the localization of the disease and the death toll ranging from single digits to a couple hundred. This is how it begins...

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Of course I have no idea what the chance is here, but all those people comforted by statements like "So far, only 4000 have died out of 7 billion" should realize that in prior outbreaks, people were comforted by the localization of the disease and the death toll ranging from single digits to a couple hundred. This is how it begins...

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Getting overly worried about won't do anything but make people sound as dumb as they do in this thread.

The chances are pretty slim. The possibility is always there and it is frightening. There's also always the chance of recombination of influenza virus into a strain as deadly as the 1928 spanish flu.

FWIW, it's more likely for such a change to come about via recombination with another viral strain, rather than by antigenic drift. Alot of viruses rapidly mutate. HIV, influenza, etc. So the fast rate of mutation of a virus isn't novel.



You're out of your element Donny

They're not hot anymore, nobody wants to touch them anyway.