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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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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.
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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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.
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

zombie apocalypse

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.
Last edited by xXExoXx; Oct 4, 2014 at 08:45 PM.
[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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Originally Posted by Source
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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Last edited by BuZe; Oct 4, 2014 at 08:52 PM.
Originally Posted by woof View Post
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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Uh, that is how mutations happen in general. Viruses don't copy themselves, they require a host for reproduction.
Nor do those mutations happen every time they reproduce. That would be actually good for us because most mutations have either no or a negative effect.
Please don't spew bullshit all over the place. Your source also contradicts your statement. I also don't suggest you use words you don't seem to understand.