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Chat => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bacon on October 15, 2015, 21:53:05 PM

Title: Ebola, we should be worried.
Post by: Bacon on October 15, 2015, 21:53:05 PM
The Nurse that contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone has been admitted to hospital again after fully recovering from the virus, her condition is critical.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34529575

I remember listening to the news a bit while all this was going on, i remember them saying they were having trouble controlling the virus, then they set a deadline date and lo and behold they somehow met the date, but i am sceptical it was anything more than propoganda.

I get the impression that with the current movement of people this virus is the next big thing we should be worrying about.

What are your thoughts?
Title: Re: Ebola, we should be worried.
Post by: Serious on October 17, 2015, 07:45:55 AM
in a very few people ebola can go and hide for quite some time then resurface. This has been known about for a good while.

It has recently been observed to be in semen of male survivors up to 9 months after 'recovery' and it's not fully over, two new cases have been reported in Guinea.

The other side of this is that about 11,000 people died in 2 years, About the same as gun death toll in the US in a single year. This isn't going to remove the human race from the face of the earth. A modern 'black death' scenario might kill 2 BILLION or more.

Then every year about 1.24 million people die due to road traffic related incidents.