OT: Latest Congo Ebola Outbreak

[CL82]

70% fatality rate and yet it is still growing after 8 months.

Scary stuff.

 

[CCSUblue]

70% fatality rate and yet it is still growing after 8 months.

Scary stuff.

It's crossed the boarder into Uganda as well.

 

[UconnU]

Unpopular opinion: Outbreak is a highly overrated movie.

 

[Scrutineer]

The scary stuff includes this quote from the June 4 edition of USA Today:
"Last week, Border Patrol agents from the Del Rio Sector in Texas apprehended a group of 37 immigrants from the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including families and small children, as they attempted to cross into the USA."

 

[CL82]

It's crossed the boarder into Uganda as well.

Disease has so little respect for borders.

 

[CCSUblue]

Disease has so little respect for borders.

The scary thing is the people attacking the medical centers and killing the doctors because of charasmatic leaders that tell them the doctors are making them sick.

 

[Guapo]

The scary thing is the people attacking the medical centers and killing the doctors because of charasmatic leaders that tell them the doctors are making them sick.

I heard a really interesting story about this on NPR a few weeks ago.

Really fascinating and scary stuff.

 

[uconnbill]

70% fatality rate and yet it is still growing after 8 months.

Scary stuff.

Very scary and pray that they find a cure before many more die.

 

[sledog]

A few of those dudes have been cought coming over the Mex border, but not infected - so far...

 

[DarthGrumpy]

The scary stuff includes this quote from the June 4 edition of USA Today:
"Last week, Border Patrol agents from the Del Rio Sector in Texas apprehended a group of 37 immigrants from the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including families and small children, as they attempted to cross into the USA."

Not sure if this is true; but, unless said immigrants are getting flown to Mexico, the incubation period for Ebola is less than the time its going to take an individual by train/boat/truck/foot to get from central Africa to the US border.

 

[B1GEast]

With almost 8 billion people on this planet, nature is about the cull the herd. The Spanish influenza's got nothing on the next pandemic

 

[Hogoff]

Watch The Hot Zone on HBO. Pretty scary stuff.

 

[Scrutineer]

With almost 8 billion people on this planet, nature is about the cull the herd. The Spanish influenza's got nothing on the next pandemic

And, if you're right, that pandemic will solve climate issues, worldwide hunger and god knows what else. According to the UN, if there's no pandemic and current birth rates hold, the 7.3 billion people on the planet now (double what it was 50 years ago) will grow to almost 11 billion by 2049.
Fertility rate is half what it was in the 1960's so the growth rate isn't as high as it's been the past 100 years Lots of potential athletes for UConn though.........

 

[B1GEast]

And, if you're right, that pandemic will solve climate issues, worldwide hunger and god knows what else. According to the UN, if there's no pandemic and current birth rates hold, the 7.3 billion people on the planet now (double what it was 50 years ago) will grow to almost 11 billion by 2049.
Fertility rate is half what it was in the 1960's so the growth rate isn't as high as it's been the past 100 years Lots of potential athletes for UConn though....

It might make life worse. What do you do with close to or more than a billion dead bodies? Burning them would be catastrophic. There's not enough real estate to bury them and you hope that we get to the dead bodies before animals start feeding on dead bodies and transmitting the virus to safe zones. If a large number of higher educated people die and the dumb and stupid are left to rebuild society, it could get REALLY ugly.