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...
I’m not worrying about Ebola. There’s more than enough domestic stuff to concern us.
Health Officials Issue Warning After Eagle County Man Dies From Hantavirus
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/08/05/health-officials-issue-warning-after-eagle-county-man-dies-from-hantavirus/
Read “THE HOT ZONE” by Richard Preston for free here:
http://learn.flvs.net/educator/common/EnglishIIv10/TheHotZone.pdf
“In October 1989 people in the community of Reston, Virginia went about their daily lives not realizing that a serious crisis was developing right in their back yards that would not be entirely resolved until March 1990. It was a serious calamity that could have wiped out the entire population. This dire emergency was described twenty years ago by Richard Preston in his non-fiction book, “The Hot Zone.” The “hot zone” refers to an “area that contains lethal, infectious organisms” also dubbed “hot agent,” an “extremely lethal virus, potentially airborne.”
I remember when this happened but I don’t remember it being called Ebola.
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