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Ebola victim was on his way to US
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Miles Quaritch
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Containment would be easier though. The reason it tends to spread in villages is that people care for their loved one without any protection. There's also little in the way of quarantining and such.
It would probably initially spread if it ever hits a metropolitan area, but once the first symptoms begin to present and the message gets out about the virus and what to look for, it wouldn't be hard to stop it from being a major threat.
It not being airborne will probably be our saving grace if it ever reaches metropolitan areas.
That's not to say hundreds wouldn't die, but it wouldn't progress in a metropolitan area the same way it tends to progress in a village.
Tesseract
Banned
nah
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/33277/title/Ebola-from-Pigs-to-Monkeys/
http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/viruses101/how_monkeys_and_pigs_are
Only a matter of time, imo. The more we battle it, the more nature will evolve it.
sigh, i wish them the best in life
You're right. When WW3 starts due to Ukraine we'll never see the global Ebola plauge coming.
Ebola isn't new and there are good reasons it flourishes in place with extremely poor sanitation
For their sakes it's probably best that he never got home.
Takamura-San
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Im sorry, why are planes being allowed to leave that country?
So it begins.....
Scary shit.
That's a graphic for a computer virus though.
If that were the case, the infection rate would be in the thousands not the hundreds.
RandyBobandy
Banned
Ignorance and stupidity
Because the real world is not a cartoon where closing all international travel happens at the press of a button. The entire country would have to be on lockdown which has huge impact.
I know.
Dusk Prophet
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I wonder how long it will take for humans to end up like the Quarians from Mass Effect wearing full suits and all that jazz, instead of our immune system being garbage like the Quarians we will be wearing them because the viruses would've evolved to become highly deadly meaning we cant even breath the air on our own planet due to the chance of contracting something.
Dunno if this is even possible scientifically :/
Unfortunately, many people do not get sick days and some even get chastised for staying home sick.
It's not really that applicable though.
Thequietone
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This. My boss said the next time I call in sick I am fired. So I just buy Dayquil to hide my symptoms.
figadapaura
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It's time to go live in space.
Frustrated_Grunt
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That's pretty fucked up. D:
Fenderputty
Banned
Well sure. But those same reasons it flourishes there are also why it's stayed contained there. It kills too quickly after infection. How many times has Ebola reached major metropolitan areas btw?
SquiddyCracker
Banned
If Ebola ever went airborne we'd already be dead.
Astral Dog
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May God have mercy on us all
eudaemonic
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I'm not for freaking everyone the fuck out but the rate in which things mutate and adapt at that level is greater than my confidence level in those that maintain that it won't get to a point that it'll be a problem.
That said, I'm more worried about some nutjob shooting me than I am in contracting a fatal virus.
What you do in this scenario is get sick as fuck and make sure it spreads to your boss. And then give him the coldest look humanly possible when he complains about being sick.
mortality is only 25-90%
There would still be a few hundred million people left in the worst case.
If WW3 would be a thing then we'd already be dead
Which would be mainly the worlds 1% so... not a good outcome for the rest of us.
Like the others said: move to Greenland and be part of the 1%
Fenderputty
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They might live, but it would be a giant reset button on society if 90% were wiped out. I'm curious how society would react. Especially to those who cannot contribute in any meaningful way once things start to get crazy. I always think of "The Stand" when discussing these topics.
Yea it's legit I'm pretty sure. It can be transferred airborne in the lab via monkeys.
Not been documented between humans though.
From symptoms to death it takes around 1-2 weeks.
If you don't mind, what field of work are you in?
I literally clapped for you just now.
And this is some scary shit. Specially with the incubation period. How long is Ebola contagious? It can't be the whole incubation period can it?
RandyBobandy
Banned
Is there not even any kind of medication that can slow the process down?
Gov/Wealthy folks are/have been investing in bunkers/seed banks, etc. Robots will do the labor that folks won't be around to be. But, im going to go with my gut in knowing that I won't be invited by any Trillionaire to share their food ration paste. Reset, sure. but these things are meant to sustain nuclear fallouts for years. Its safe to say a viral plan is in mind, with directions on how to proceed.
If 90% goes then even the people who survive are fucked.
in the long run, a virus would evolve to become less lethal, because killing it's host/reservoir means that the virus would terminate itself.
exhibit A: ebola, which doesn't spread like HIV due to it highly virulent nature.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
No, this isn't a movie.
Not if they can fight to survive...
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/1041824/alice-resident-evil-3-o.gif
But you're right! The survivors would simply starve 1 or 2 years after the outbreak.
Spider-Man
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Ebola has gone airborne between other species, how is it ridiculous for this strain to go airborne? Come on.
R10Neymarfan
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Good thing the virus hasn't evolved to the point of it being a danger. But a vaccine should probably be in the making
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