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Ebola - will we survive?
One of the most destructive virus existing right now. Will it fade or will it stay?

Discuss.
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Well about 47% of people that have ebola survived. (Thats what I heard)
The scary part about Ebola is that it mutates....

most likely it will fade away if we handle it correctly

if not well we are fucked
http://www.newsweek.com/ebola-zombie...emation-275149

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Originally Posted by Means View Post
Well about 47% of people that have ebola survived. (Thats what I heard)
The scary part about Ebola is that it mutates....

most likely it will fade away if we handle it correctly

if not well we are fucked
http://www.newsweek.com/ebola-zombie...emation-275149

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There are different strains of ebola, the one going around right now had** a ~90% mortality rate.

Edit: *had, I guess it isn't so high anymore, but it is still the deadliest kind overall.
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It'll blow over soon, it's only really affecting 3rd world countries right now (apart from that one guy in Texas or something). We should just whistle spooky tunes while scientists develop a proper vaccine for it.
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Vaccines won't be permanent because it's a constantly mutating virus that keeps cropping up decade after decade.
It's deadly if you catch it, but the only reason it spreads through 3rd world countries is because they've got shit infrastructure so they hug people covered with bodily fluids and contract it, and in some areas they eat rats, bats, e.t.c. and those are suspected carriers so no shit they're contracting it.

Maybe if it spread through the air like the common cold we'd be fucked, but it doesn't spread even half as fast as a snail would.
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Originally Posted by Dscigs View Post
Vaccines won't be permanent because it's a constantly mutating virus that keeps cropping up decade after decade.

Just like every virus ever.

Did you know people still die of the black plague?
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Originally Posted by ImmortalPig View Post
Just like every virus ever.

Did you know people still die of the black plague?

The Black Plaque was caused by bacteria, but yes, it is still around in some regions in Central Asia iirc. There is no vast effort to get rid of it because it does not kill a lot of people and it can be cured.
Naturally many viruses go extinct as the environment changes. They can die out just like any other species can.
It requires great effort to make a virus go extinct by force, but it is possible.
Smallpox went extinct in the wild, the only remaining smallpox viruses are in labs.
Same with the cattle-plague virus.
Polio is very close to extinction.
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Ebola isn't an airborne disease, it spreads through saliva, snot, poop, and all bodily fluids, but it might evolve into a airborne disease, who knows. Really hard to predict what will happen, but if it isn't correctly dealt with, gg life.
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[QUOTE=woof;7644326 but it might evolve into a airborne disease, who knows. [/QUOTE]
technically it has evolved into an airborne disease in the past, but it was contained.
and it only affected west africain monkeys, so it was good
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The difficulty is that those [flu] viruses don’t have the protein attachments that can actually attach to cells in the upper airway. They have to develop attachments to do that. Since the virus doesn’t have attachment factors that can work in the upper airway, it’s very rare for it to go human to human, and then it almost always stops and doesn’t get to a third person.

Everytime Ebola copies it self, it make a mutation. Nucleic acid polymerases insert incorrect nucleotides during chain elongation which means, everytime it copies it self, it messes up it's RNA enzymes.

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