I pray and hope that you are right. One big difference they were never the number of bird flu deaths as there have been Ebola deaths. Also bird flu deaths dropped over time nothing like the 40% increase they are seeing in Ebola.
Avian influenza H5N1 does not exhibit tertiary spread. That’s an unchanged feature of its biology since Hanoi 1997.
Ebola is another matter entirely. It has the ability to kill tens of millions and if we don’t contain it in West Africa, maybe a lot more.
Hope so too mu friend. I went to Mexico when they shut the entire government down.
Went to McDonald’s and it was very eery to eat breakfast and not see another customer.
Very zombie movie like going to the mall in Cancun and seeing just a few places open and only one restaurant.
Upside there was the guy asked us for $20 bucks a piece and had us eating and sharing stories.
Freakin awesome and never saw another person walk through the door all afternoon.
Bonus was, they served chipolines. My friends dared me to eat em.
Uhmm, okay. I had three double Scotches in me.
I drop a handful in my mouth and ate em.
Like eating crunchy lemon.
I’ll worry about Ebola when it’s time.
Bird flu, like other flu, is seasonal. The reason we are so concerned about bird flu is that influenza viruses both mutate and recombine (that is, trade genes with other flu viruses) quite rapidly--meaning that a virus that is now not contagious could become contagious overnight. With the bird flu--which has a higher death rate than Ebola--such a change would be disastrous.
Ebola, OTOH, is not very contagious and is not likely to become contagious because it infects the blood, not the lungs or throat. It can mutate, but the chance of it become contagious through aerosols is remote. It cannot recombine the way flu does, because all of its genes are on a single genetic molecule. We are not seeing an increase in death rate with Ebola; in fact, this outbreak is less lethal (less than 60%) than some past outbreaks that have had over 90% lethality.
Most viruses, if they become easily contagious, also become less virulent and lethal. While this is true of influenza, we do not know if it is true of Ebola. Highly lethal viruses usually kill their victims before they have a chance to spread, and Ebola is only contagious when symptomatic, reducing its chance to spread.