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Health authorities in Guinea are facing an "unprecedented epidemic" of Ebola with a wide-ranging geographical spread that will make containing the disease difficult, international aid group Doctors Without Borders warned Monday.
The death toll in Guinea has now climbed to 78, the group said. The World Health Organization said another three people are believed to have died from the virus in Liberia and Sierra Leone, prompting fears of a regional epidemic.
jjkenobi
reply to post by HardCorps
Ok first, eating bats?? Gross. Second, oh crap. With world travel in this day and age Ebola could be the endgame virus.
jjkenobi
reply to post by HardCorps
Ok first, eating bats?? Gross. Second, oh crap. With world travel in this day and age Ebola could be the endgame virus.
rickymouse
reply to post by signalfire
I have this strange feeling that they actually want a major disease to spread worldwide. Common sense would be to limit the spreading of a disease to protect your citizens. Maybe there will be some really cheap promotional flights to these areas in the future.
ketsuko
reply to post by signalfire
Ebola isn't as easy to spread as you might think. It doesn't do well outside the body. It spreads through sweat, blood, feces, and sexual fluids. You can get it by directly contacting those fluids from an infected person. The virus isn't very durable outside the body.
Most people who get it do so through very close contact or touching contaminated corpses.
Just sitting on the same plane with a person and breathing the same air isn't likely to spread it to very many people on that plane.
What makes this outbreak so bad is that it's in a new location that is more developed with more mobile people letting it spread a little easier than it has in the past.
edit on 1-4-2014 by ketsuko because: (no reason given)
jjkenobi
rickymouse
reply to post by signalfire
I have this strange feeling that they actually want a major disease to spread worldwide. Common sense would be to limit the spreading of a disease to protect your citizens. Maybe there will be some really cheap promotional flights to these areas in the future.
I agree, but only a virus that the wealthy and elite have a cure to. The rest of us peons will just suffer and die.