CONAKRY (Reuters) - Health officials fighting an outbreak of Ebola in Guinea on Sunday dispatched specialized medical equipment, imposed restrictions on funerals and sought to contain panic to prevent the fever from spreading.
There have been 29 confirmed deaths from the hemorrhagic fever among 59 people killed by a mysterious illness in southeastern Guinea since early February, international medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said.
U.N. health officials have expressed concern that the disease, which has a fatality rate of 90 percent and has not been recorded in the West African state before, may spread to Sierra Leone after cases showing similar symptoms, including diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding, were reported there.
At least five of the dead in Guinea have been medical officials, including the head of the regional hospital in Macenta, at the heart of the crisis, some 800 km (500 miles) from Guinea's capital Conakry.
Guinea dispatches equipment to contain outbreak of Ebola | Reuters
We may have an effective and resilient plague with this one. Natural forces will find a means to balance a population growing unchecked like a cancer. Some 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. Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.

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Jet travel is quite the gig these days.

Yes, it's quite a good way to spread a plague. The films Contagion and Outbreak are fairly accurate if you disregard the Hollyweird happy endings.

To survive one should have the resources to isolate and quarantine for at least a month. Food and ammo is essential.

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There is a decent section on the subject in Jared Diamonds; Guns, Germs, and Steel
Apparently like the Black Plagues in Europe someone always survives and develops resistance to getting the Microbes until time makes the next generations less resistant of or the Disease mutates enough that resistance to it does not matter.

As Dudesky indicated any Disease is easily Transported world wide to those who do not have resistance to it

Another factor is as I read in a Book about the Black Plague in the City of London. A large number of People died because then did not have anyone to care for them let alone even the primitive Medical care of the time.. I am speaking of getting them Food and Water and making sure they were not exposed to the environment adversely.

Despite Disease Man has sort of ruined Natures attempts a balance. There is too many of us to Feed and care for properly and at the same time we are killing of too many other living things supplying ourselves with much more than we need for our survival.

Who ever dies of Ebola will hardly make a ripple in the World Population.

However, no change is on the Horizion.

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Although it was a pandemic, I believe the survival rate for the Spanish Flu was closer to 50%.

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Mortality rate for Spanish flu was about 3%.

Yup. It's just that that 3% happened to be a shltload of people.

I read an interesting study some years ago done on the survivors of that epidemic and their high rate of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. 4 of my 5 maternal uncles survived it and all died with Alz/Park combinations late in life. The fifth was born after the epidemic and had neither. My mother missed it as well and she was the only one of her sisters who didn't have Alzheimer's. Curious.

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LOL this wasn't a good enough thread

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/open-discussion/352629-wtf.html