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EBOLA-Reston Virus in pigs

  • 13-07-2009 6:21pm
    #1
    Martyr
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    First detected around december 2008 and more recently again in the philipines.

    The main concern is that it might mutate into something else and spread to humans.

    The question is, how did it get into philipines in the first place?

    And if it mutates, along with the flu, for example.

    What chance have we got? since there are no known survivors of ebola, it is worrying development.

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  • #2
    thecommander
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    Martyr wrote: »
    What chance have we got? since there are no known survivors of ebola, it is worrying development.

    Mortality rate of ebola is between 50% and 90%. Its not a 100% killer.


  • #3
    nyarlothothep
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    Ebola kills itself off pretty quickly in populations because its so lethal no? If it broke out on a wide scale in some mutated form almost everyone would be fcked.


  • #4
    DubTony
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    thecommander wrote: »
    Mortality rate of ebola is between 50% and 90%. Its not a 100% killer.

    So, only half the population gets killed? BONUS !!!


  • #5
    Martyr
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    Ebola first emerged in 1976 in Zaire, Africa. It remained largely obscure until 1989 with the outbreak in Reston, Virginia from monkies imported from the philipines.

    In the first known case of what may be transmission of the Ebola virus from a pig to a human, a pig handler in the Philippines has tested positive for a strain of the virus, world health officials and the Philippine government announced Friday.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/health/24ebola.html?_r=1

    also on same page, a theory on how it was transmitted to pigs

    It is not known how the pigs were infected, but Dr. Lubroth noted that studies in Africa found Ebola viruses in fruit bats. Similar bats live in the Philippines, and fruit bats are thought to have transmitted the deadly Nipah virus to pigs, possibly through their droppings or dead bodies.


  • #6
    rmacm
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    Martyr wrote: »
    What chance have we got? since there are no known survivors of ebola, it is worrying development.

    It appears there are some survivors.

    http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ifTuzLCg2z1d2_7QaKpXb0gOgmWw

    http://allafrica.com/stories/200712150027.html
    On November 30, 2007, the Uganda Ministry of Health confirmed an outbreak of Ebola in the Bundibugyo District. After confirmation of samples tested by the United States National Reference Laboratories and the Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization confirmed the presence of a new species of Ebolavirus which is now tenatively named Bundibugyo. The epidemic came to an official end on February 20, 2008. While it lasted, 149 cases of this new strain were reported, and 37 of those led to deaths.

    ^^^ That's from the wikipedia article on Ebola.


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