Ebola outbreak in Guinea kills 59, may have spread to Sierra Leone

[Balog]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/22/us-guinea-ebola-idUSBREA2L0MI20140322

Let's hope they can knock it out. Given how interconnected the world is and how thin the depth of treatments available, a pandemic is one of the few realistic tikiwiki scenarios.

[Balog]

May have spread to Liberia as well. http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-epidemic-spreads-guineas-capital-173304833.html;_ylt=AwrTWfyRVTBT5FgAIcrQtDMD

[Boomhauer]

Wonderful. Just what the world needs...more Ebola.

[Balog]

Wonderful. Just what the world needs...more Ebola.

Thankfully it's so lethal (and so fast) that it generally burns itself out before it can spread too far. If it ever mutates (or is engineered) to have a long asymptomatic incubation period and air borne communication then we're in serious trouble.

[BlueStarLizzard]

Thankfully it's so lethal (and so fast) that it generally burns itself out before it can spread too far. If it ever mutates (or is engineered) to have a long asymptomatic incubation period and air borne communication then we're in serious trouble.

This is one of the few books that's ever given me *expletive deleted*ing nightmares.

 http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/042510687X/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?pc_redir=1395704287

I don't care if this will most likely come to nothing. It still gives me the heebie jeebies.

[Balog]

This is one of the few books that's ever given me *expletive deleted* nightmares.

 http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/042510687X/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?pc_redir=1395704287

I don't care if this will most likely come to nothing. It still gives me the heebie jeebies.

Here are a couple non-fiction ones that are probably even worse.

http://www.amazon.com/Hot-Zone-Terrifying-True-Story/dp/0385479565/ref=la_B000AQ793U_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395704651&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Demon-Freezer-True-Story/dp/0345466632/ref=la_B000AQ793U_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395704651&sr=1-3

[Hutch]

The Hot Zone scared the hell out of me.  I was commuting from Herndon to Tyson's Corner on the Dulles toll road, right past the monkey house in Reston where and when an outbreak occurred.  I never knew it until I read the book.  <shiver>

[Balog]

The Hot Zone scared the hell out of me.  I was commuting from Herndon to Tyson's Corner on the Dulles toll road, right past the monkey house in Reston where and when an outbreak occurred.  I never knew it until I read the book.  <shiver>

Wasn't the Reston incident just monkeys, and a non-human communicable form?

[BlueStarLizzard]

Wait! It was the Hot Zone! *shudder*

And just for poops and giggles my boss used to work in that lab (well, not that exact lab. She worked in a diffrent building, but in the same complex)

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Thankfully it's so lethal (and so fast) that it generally burns itself out before it can spread too far. If it ever mutates (or is engineered) to have a long asymptomatic incubation period and air borne communication then we're in serious trouble.

so far we've been lucky  its always hit out in the sticks.  we ever get an urban outbreak we have a problem.

[roo_ster]

Dont forget the bubonic plague in the prairie dog population.  A few people die each year from that.  One mutation or outbreak and we will party like its 1348.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

thats why i like where i live.  just isolated enough

[mtnbkr]

I work in Reston.

Chris

[Bigjake]

Thankfully it's so lethal (and so fast) that it generally burns itself out before it can spread too far. If it ever mutates (or is engineered) to have a long asymptomatic incubation period and air borne communication then we're in serious trouble.

Wasn't that one Rainbow Six?  Been a long time since I've read Clancy,  but wasn't that one Hippies threatening the world with weaponized Ebola?

[RoadKingLarry]

so far we've been lucky  its always hit out in the sticks.  we ever get an urban outbreak we have a problem.

Good thing we have strict immigration controls so that someone infected with a communicable disease doesn't get to come here and just wander around in public.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

someone sneaking in doesn't scare me as bad as one infected person coming outa africa changing flights in rome and london then here.  all those potentially infected folks on other flights going in all directions could be a real day spoiler.  and casualties would not be limited to folks actually infected.

[Triphammer]

Good thing we have strict immigration controls so that someone infected with a communicable disease doesn't get to come here and just wander around in public.

Where YOU from?

[RoadKingLarry]

Where YOU from?

 

It doesn't even have to be an apocolypse level plague. We've seen a huge increase in things like Pertussis (whooping cough) measels and the like. Not all of it is due to the anti-vaccine tards.

[bedlamite]

Looks like someone brought it to Canada:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26726745

[Boomhauer]

It doesn't even have to be an apocolypse level plague. We've seen a huge increase in things like Pertussis (whooping cough) measels and the like. Not all of it is due to the anti-vaccine tards.

Not to mention how people lose their *expletive deleted*it over what turns out to be fairly ineffectual diseases...the response to a lethal outbreak is going to be interesting.

[Balog]

Dont forget the bubonic plague in the prairie dog population.  A few people die each year from that.  One mutation or outbreak and we will party like its 1348.

Lot of evidence that may not have been Yersinia Pestins.

[Nick1911]

I read a text written by a former soviet bioweapons scientist - it's scary what's already out there, in labs and in warheads.   

Found it!  http://www.amazon.com/Biohazard-Chilling-Largest-Biological-World--Told/dp/0385334966/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395718078&sr=1-1

[Sergeant Bob]

Looks like someone brought it to Canada:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26726745

From this article:

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He is in isolation in critical condition in Saskatoon, the largest city in Saskatchewan province.

[lupinus]

From this article:

That is...unfortunate.

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[Harold Tuttle]

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