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Could Ebola now be airborne?
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| 3/28/14
| DAMIEN GAYLE
Posted on 03/28/2014 6:34:35 PM PDT by Kartographer
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Move over 'Captain Trips'!
To: Axenolith; dynachrome; Sacajaweau; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; ...
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:35:13 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:36:59 PM PDT
by
null and void
( Everything evil in the world may not be Islamic but everything Islamic is evil.)
To: Kartographer
gee I hope no middle eastern scientists are part of that experiment.
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:38:03 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Kartographer
Hemorrhagic fever. The mortality rate is effectively 100%. You bleed to death from the inside out.
Its the real Captain Trips. Ebola is one of those nightmare viruses confined to the depths of the jungles - or we so we thought.
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:38:33 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Kartographer
...wouldn’t you like to be a pepper too?
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:39:47 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:40:54 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: goldstategop
We’ll see if the theory that a high mortality rate eventually limits the spread of the pathogen.
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:41:02 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: DuncanWaring
They need to work on a vaccine.
But don’t forget, Islamic clerics will still be opposed to vaccinating their own people against dying of septic shock.
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:42:01 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Kartographer; LucyT; maggief; hoosiermama; null and void; Mother Abigail
Kartographer, thanks for the post!
All y’all, ping to this topic!
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:42:28 PM PDT
by
WildHighlander57
((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
To: driftdiver
Airborne mutations of Ebola.
Plot device(s) in the movie Outbreak and the Tom Clancy novel Rainbow Six if I recall correctly.
Scary.
To: null and void
How many exposed have already jumped on a plane out???
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:43:49 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: driftdiver
That abandoned women’s prison is looking better and better.
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:44:02 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Antihero101607
Tom Clancy’s “Executive Orders”.
The Iranians try to develop a strain of Ebola Mayinga that gets deployed as an aerosol. After the initial infection outbreak, it burns out due to lack of contact with victims.
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:45:53 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
To: Antihero101607
The nastiest killer in human history was a bacteria named yersina pestis. Better known as the Black Death.
It killed half the population of medieval Europe. Giovanni Boccaccio’s famous “Decameron” has it as its background.
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:46:21 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: driftdiver
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:46:37 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: goldstategop
Hmmm, how is it that we never heard of this sort of disease from the annals of the early explorers?
When was the first case documented?
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:46:45 PM PDT
by
WildHighlander57
((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
To: WildHighlander57
Ebola has always been prevalent among African animals. They have acquired a natural immunity to it. Unfortunately, few human beings have it and that is why its nearly almost lethal.
The bubonic plague on the other hand can be treated with antibiotics.
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:51:24 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: null and void
But now Canadian researchers have carried out experiments showing how monkeys can catch the deadly disease from infected pigs without coming into direct contactThese tests were conducted of Africa....
To: Kartographer
Ebola and the Black Death are the ones you hope don’t mutate and become airborne. Either one would make New York in “The Stand” look like a picnic.
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posted on
03/28/2014 6:57:41 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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