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Virus outbreak in Africa?

  • 07-08-2014 4:28pm
    #1
    Teaforlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭


    Will this Ebola virus be worse than the Swine Flu outbreak? Will it spread to European countries?

    Will the Ebola outbreak be worse than the Swine Flu? 5 votes

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  • #2
    kiffer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    Teaforlife wrote: »
    Will this Ebola virus worse than the Swine Flu outbreak?

    For whom?
    People not in areas already effected or people in areas that are already infected?

    Edit... stupid hands, post made no sense.


  • #3
    Teaforlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭Teaforlife


    kiffer wrote: »
    For whom?
    People not in areas already effected or people in areas that are already infected?

    Edit... stupid hands, post made no sense.

    NOT in areas


  • #4
    Not2Good
    Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Not2Good


    Teaforlife wrote: »
    Will this Ebola virus be worse than the Swine Flu outbreak? Will it spread to European countries?

    I hope not. Already a patient being treated in Spain last I heard


  • #5
    Vorsprung
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭Vorsprung


    Ebola is scary stuff. Mortality rate not living up to 90% as reported initially, that figure apparently came from a single outbreak some years back when a strain different to the one responsible for this outbreak was responsible. Think it's 45-50% mortality as it stands, absolutely crazy stuff.

    Massive respect for those who are working out there caring for those patients, true heroes of medicine.


  • #6
    Rucking_Fetard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard


    Teaforlife wrote: »
    Will this Ebola virus be worse than the Swine Flu outbreak? Will it spread to European countries?
    If I was gonna be worried, it would be about these little fellers.
    "A scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison published an article in June revealing that he had taken genes from the deadly human 1918 Spanish Flu and inserted them into the H5N1 avian flu to make a new virus—one which was both far deadlier and far more capable of spreading than the original avian strain. In July it was revealed that the same scientist was conducting another study in which he genetically altered the 2009 strain of flu to enable it to evade immune responses, 'effectively making the human population defenseless against re-emergence.' In the U.S. alone, biosafety incidents involving pathogens happen more than twice per week. These 'gain-of-function' experiments are accidents waiting to happen, with the possibility of starting deadly pandemics that could kill millions.

    It isn't as if it hasn't happened before: in 2009, a group of Chinese scientists created a viral strain of flu virus that escaped the lab and created a pandemic, killing thousands of people. 'Against this backdrop, the growing use of gain-of-function approaches for research requires more careful examination. And the potential consequences keep getting more catastrophic.' This article explores the history of lab-created pandemics and outlines recommendations for a safer approach to this type of research."
    How to Maintain Lab Safety While Making Viruses Deadlier


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