The Ebola Thread

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I am somewhat reminded of the Babylon 5 episode "Confessions and Lamentations".

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Holy sh*t, a woman in Charlotte, NC has contracted it. 'Hoping she ends up ok.

She is from Charlottle, not in Charlotte.  She is in Liberia where she has been helping out with a medical aid mission.  By all appearances, she is a woman who should end up at the right hand of Christ, though hopefully not soon.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The 60 percent figure being thrown around seems too low. In Guinea, the disease has a fatality rate of about 75 percent. In Sierra Leone and Liberia it is much lower, but that is because new suspected cases are piling up very fast in those countries. Many of those cases will die.

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They are still going for the isolate and contain route. Getting cooperation from the local population is going to be the number one issue.

Guinea has had the most resistance from the local population to measures intended to control the spread of Ebola, which likely has contributed to the higher mortality rate there as well.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The Nature paper is interesting, but as the paper points out, pigs respond differently to Ebola than primates do making airborne spread of the virus from them far far more likely than with primates.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

We may now have a case too:

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http://www.thelocal.at/20140903/suspected-case-of-ebola-in-vienna

The test from Hamburg says it's not Ebola.

I thought that would likely turn out to be the case.  In its early stages, there are several diseases that share symptoms with Ebola and are far more common.  That was a contributing factor to how Ebola spread so much.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Now this is a joke:

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