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I'm surprised there isn't a thread on this.
There are predictions from the CDC that around 1 million people could be infected by January next year. At a mortality rate over at least 50% that's 500,000 people dead within four months. That is a rate of dying probably not seen since the influenza outbreak in 1918.
Little is said about the spread of disease after it reaches 1 million people. It's almost like the unsaid reality of that is "oh well, we're ****ed" as the next consequence. To me it would seem the disease would be impossible to contain without shutting down the modern global economy.
The race is on to find a vaccine, and there is hope there will be one found by the end of the year. Even so, a mass vaccination program around the world would probably see similar rates of dying from vaccination as happened with smallpox vaccination. It would be the kind of risk that those who are litigious and anti-pharmaceutical might not want to take.
This article suggests that ebola might just become a thing humanity has to live with for a while, like it did with smallpox, tuberculosis, polio etc for centuries.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...n-ebola-outbreak-that-never-really-goes-away/
Anyway, this is the thread for all your ebola news!
There are predictions from the CDC that around 1 million people could be infected by January next year. At a mortality rate over at least 50% that's 500,000 people dead within four months. That is a rate of dying probably not seen since the influenza outbreak in 1918.
Little is said about the spread of disease after it reaches 1 million people. It's almost like the unsaid reality of that is "oh well, we're ****ed" as the next consequence. To me it would seem the disease would be impossible to contain without shutting down the modern global economy.
The race is on to find a vaccine, and there is hope there will be one found by the end of the year. Even so, a mass vaccination program around the world would probably see similar rates of dying from vaccination as happened with smallpox vaccination. It would be the kind of risk that those who are litigious and anti-pharmaceutical might not want to take.
This article suggests that ebola might just become a thing humanity has to live with for a while, like it did with smallpox, tuberculosis, polio etc for centuries.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...n-ebola-outbreak-that-never-really-goes-away/
Anyway, this is the thread for all your ebola news!