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Post by cjm on Oct 2, 2014 5:21:44 GMT
How can they be so careless?
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greyghost
New Member
How have you people managed all this time without me? Must have been really rough, huh.
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Post by greyghost on Oct 2, 2014 18:51:25 GMT
It was announced today that there almost 500 people infected within the US. The Liberian immigrant in Dallas even had contact wit a group of school children!
Give us a couple of months and we will make Africa look like a sunday school picnic!
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Post by cjm on Oct 2, 2014 19:42:41 GMT
It was announced today that there almost 500 people infected within the US. The Liberian immigrant in Dallas even had contact wit a group of school children! Give us a couple of months and we will make Africa look like a sunday school picnic! 500? you sure? even Zim had the good sense to close their northern borders. That Liberian apparently went through Brussels where he waited 7 hours for a flight. IncredibleWhat a bunch of idiots. They are actually trying to wipe themselves out.
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Post by cjm on Oct 9, 2014 5:21:48 GMT
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Post by Trog on Oct 9, 2014 7:46:31 GMT
Ebola is not that dangerous in terms of populations.
It suffers from being too deadly – infestations are self limiting, to a large extent: Everybody who gets infected shows almost immediate symptoms and dies shortly afterwards, without having had the opportunity to spread the disease.
A much more dangerous infectious agent is one where symptoms are mild and slow to appear and death only occurs weeks or months later. This has the effect of bringing an infected person into contact with a much larger proportion of the population before being identified. For instance TB has and will kill many, many more millions of people than Ebola ever will, even though the TB bacterium is actually a very weak infectious agent.
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Post by cjm on Oct 9, 2014 18:42:23 GMT
Ebola is not that dangerous in terms of populations. It suffers from being too deadly – infestations are self limiting, to a large extent: Everybody who gets infected shows almost immediate symptoms and dies shortly afterwards, without having had the opportunity to spread the disease. A much more dangerous infectious agent is one where symptoms are mild and slow to appear and death only occurs weeks or months later. This has the effect of bringing an infected person into contact with a much larger proportion of the population before being identified. For instance TB has and will kill many, many more millions of people than Ebola ever will, even though the TB bacterium is actually a very weak infectious agent. Very reassuring! Two small concerns: In a highly populated environment, I would suspect that the damage can be quite substantial before all potential targets are wiped out. There also is the recently raised possibility that transfer of the disease might not be limited to actual contact (at least in two cases the contact was not that obvious).
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Post by cjm on Oct 10, 2014 6:29:03 GMT
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Post by Trog on Oct 10, 2014 8:35:19 GMT
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Post by cjm on Oct 10, 2014 17:00:36 GMT
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Post by cjm on Oct 11, 2014 19:34:23 GMT
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Post by cjm on Oct 12, 2014 16:05:14 GMT
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Post by cjm on Oct 13, 2014 4:53:32 GMT
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Post by cjm on Oct 13, 2014 21:18:39 GMT
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Post by cjm on Oct 14, 2014 9:12:50 GMT
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Post by cjm on Oct 15, 2014 9:36:14 GMT
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