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To: ClearCase_guy
Ebola transmits very much like the bubonic plague and cholera bacteriums--mostly due to poor sanitary conditions. That's why cholera is still a problem in the Third World and you still get bubonic plague outbreaks every now and then in the Third World. Indeed, that's why if a waste water sewage treatment plant breaks down, health officials immediately dread the possibility of a cholera outbreak.

The countries that REALLY need to dread the arrival of Ebola are China and India, where a high population density and poor sanitary conditions (by First World standards) could cause runaway Ebola epidemics in both countries.

54 posted on 10/15/2014 9:03:47 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: RayChuang88

I’m most concerned with the virus getting into native animal populations- bats (a suspected vector in Africa), squirrels, rats, possums.
We’d never be free of it then.


57 posted on 10/15/2014 9:07:38 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: RayChuang88

Why does the CDC want everyone on the Frontier flight to contact them? This disease poses no threat unless bodily fluids are exchanged.

I do believe this is the current position of the CDC. Correct me if I’m wrong.


58 posted on 10/15/2014 9:08:29 PM PDT by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: RayChuang88
Ebola transmits very much like the bubonic plague and cholera bacteriums--mostly due to poor sanitary conditions

Not correct. Cholera bacteria grows in sewage. Ebola doesn't grow anywhere except in the human body and a couple of other mammals.

80 posted on 10/16/2014 2:19:48 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: RayChuang88

Oh wow. China and India hadn’t really occurred to me. Face-Palm.


95 posted on 10/16/2014 7:41:35 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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