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wtf ??
Guinea confirms fever is Ebola, has killed up to 59 | Reuters First line is " Guinea has received confirmation that a mysterious disease that has killed up to 59 people in the West African country" Near the end says: "Though no epidemics of the disease have been recorded among humans in West Africa, a variety of Ebola infected a colony of chimpanzees in Ivory Coast's Tai National Park, near the country's border with Liberia, in 1994."
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The world health organization has been worried about this disease breaking out and getting spread for a long time. I thought they were working on a usable vaccination.
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We may have a resilient plague with this hardy little microbe. The natural population checks on the planet will keep trying till it finds a means to balance a population growing in urban mega-slums unchecked like a cancer. Isolated regions survived the pandemic of 1918 as long as they maintained quarantine, when they thought it was over and let down their guard it hit them too. Science never did find a viable vaccine for that one, there's no guarantee they'll find any vaccine for this one either.
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Rubber meets Road: BBC News - Canadian man in hospital with Ebola-like virus
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Ebola 'Totally Out of Control,' Doctors Without Borders Says - NBC News
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West Africa Is 'Overwhelmed' By Ebola : Shots - Health News : NPR
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How long before it jumps continents? What's the incubation period? Could some doctor or nurse inadvertently carry it back home before getting sick?
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See post #4. ...
The thing is, so far it is a small problem anywhere else, but this looks like it might have the potential to require quarantine of the African continent. What would we do then, shoot down planes and sink boats that tried to flee? |
This is a nasty bug
Sierra Leone's chief Ebola doctor contracts the virus | Reuters Quote:
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First Ebola victim in Sierra Leone capital on the run | Reuters Science deniers?
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If this thing can't be contained at its current size, what next?
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Yeah this thing is getting under control. U.S. doctor contracts Ebola in Liberia | Reuters
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I need a score card to follow this thing.
Liberia shuts border crossings, restricts gatherings to curb Ebola spreading | Reuters Nigeria isolates Lagos hospital where Ebola victim died | Reuters |
The Last Ship
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