A new kind of Ebola?
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 02:42
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Its odd that so many uv theze scary dezeezez orijinate in and are mainly limited to Africa. Like the continent iz having an imune respons to humanz!
Its like an old Harry Harrison story, Death World.
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Washington (AFP) - A 33-year-old American working in Liberia as a freelance cameraman for NBC News has been infected with Ebola and will be flown back to the United States, the network said.
"The freelancer came down with symptoms on Wednesday, feeling tired and achy. As part of a routine temperature check, he discovered he was running a slight fever," said NBC's website.
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It seems to me that the WORST parasites and diseases come from regions that have been heavily populated by humans for a very ling time- Africa and China - because the microbiota has had time to co-evolve with human hosts.
But that's just me.
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My understanding is that most highly contagious diseases cross over from animals and living in close proximaty with animals, or having animals live in close proximaty with one another. When the disease cross species, it appears to be highly contageous and particularly deadly. However, as it evolves it tends to become less deadly, probably better for its spread and survival to not continually keep killing its host. Also surviving hosts are often able to pass it on without succumbing to it, so you have more resilient hosts.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
It seems to me that the WORST parasites and diseases come from regions that have been heavily populated by humans for a very ling time- Africa and China - because the microbiota has had time to co-evolve with human hosts.
But that's just me.
There appears to be something to do with the amount of animals that can be/were domesticated in these regions.
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On a different line of thought, I have two opposing scenarios about the potential for Ebola to spread in the US. One is that the US isn't a brutally impoverished nation with no health or public health infrastructure, and with a vastly ignorant superstitious population following rituals that spread disease - and besides Ebola isn't that contagious. The opposing one is that it doesn't take one case of Ebola to start an epidemic - it takes one UNDETECTED one, and the US has a chunk of its population every bit as impoverished, ignorant, and out of reach of the authorities as a citizen in Liberia, and so separated from the medical system it might as well not exist.
I would hate to see these two scenarios tested against each other in real life.
SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
It seems to me that the WORST parasites and diseases come from regions that have been heavily populated by humans for a very ling time- Africa and China - because the microbiota has had time to co-evolve with human hosts.
But that's just me.
There appears to be something to do with the amount of animals that can be/were domesticated in these regions.
Guns, Germs, and Steel?
Yes.
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Just as an aside, while TPTB are busy telling us how unheard-of/ unlikely it is that Ebola would mutate to an airborne form, how viruses "just don't change their mode of transmission", the fact is that one of the Ebola variants has ALREADY mutated into an airborne form, as evidenced by The Hot Zone's recounting of the Reston airborne infection of an entire monkey-house.
Yes, it was a monkey virus. But it was an Ebola variant, now called Ebola Reston. And where Ebola could mutate once, it can surely mutate again in the same fashion.
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I don't think anyone knows about the natural history of Ebola Reston, for example, it's normal modes of transmission. But if it does have a significant airborne infectivity, and has had it for some time, that would go along with its very low pathogenicity. As far as anyone can tell, people who test seropositive are at no increased risk of anything.
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-06/spanish-ebola-infected-nurse-
first-case-contagion-out-africa-salzburg-activates-ebol
Spanish Ebola-Infected Nurse Is First Case Of Contagion Out Of Africa; Salzburg Activates Ebola Emergency Response
... a Spanish nurse who treated an Ebola victim in Madrid has contracted the virus herself in the first case of contagion outside Africa ... the nurse contracted the virus in Madrid while she was part of the team that treated Spanish priest Manuel Garcia Viejo ... Once again questions emerge just how the virus is transmitted, because if the nurse, who obviously took every possible precation against the world's most dangerous virus that is supposedly non-airborne, contracted it, then it clearly leads to speculation that Ebola may be transmitted by means other than
what the population is being told.
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The New York Times reported in 2000:
The Ebola virus, which has caused deaths from high fever and bleeding in African outbreaks, can also infect without producing illness, according to a new finding by African and European scientists.
The possibility of asymptomatic infection was only suggested in earlier studies, they said in last week’s issue of The Lancet, a medical journal published in London. Now they said they had documented such infections for the first time. They found that the Ebola virus could persist in the blood of asymptomatic infected individuals for two weeks after they were first exposed to an infected individual. How much longer the virus can persist is unknown.
SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.
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