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To: NoLibZone
Ebola starts as if it is a bad case of the flu and, once symptomatic, quickly makes people so ill that they would be unlikely to be able to enter the country by walking through miles of desert. The better way to carry out a biological attack would be by bringing in the pathogen as a small biological sample and then infecting people here.

However, due to modern sanitation and medical care, Ebola is unlikely to be easily transmissible and to generate a major outbreak in the US or any other developed country. Ebola is principally a menace to countries where most people lack ready access to soap, interior plumbing, and hot running water. The greatest danger is in Africa and the slums of Latin America, not the developed world.

24 posted on 08/04/2014 3:17:37 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham

Are you familiar with the 80’s AIDS Epidemic?

Modern Medicine, first world sanitation, etc etc.


33 posted on 08/04/2014 11:09:00 PM PDT by NoLibZone (The bad news: Hillary Clinton will be the next President. The Good news: Our principles are intact.)
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