Worry about Marburg, not Zombies
Whispering Legs
11-04-2005, 17:09
http://www.promedmail.org/pls/promed/f?p=2400:1001:4847528285825119276::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1000,28641
It's only a matter of time before someone gets on a plane and goes somewhere else with this.
Greater Yubari
11-04-2005, 17:12
Not really, Marburg isn't airborne, so not really a problem.
plus to make a bio weapon out of it you'd need to grow a lot of the virus.
Sounds like you'd die before you got a chance to grow enough!
Whispering Legs
11-04-2005, 17:17
Not really, Marburg isn't airborne, so not really a problem.
If you click on the link, and read the whole article, you'll find that they suspect that this is short range airborne.
They used to say that Ebola was not airborne, but the Reston Ebola was proven to be airborne.
Greater Yubari
11-04-2005, 17:23
Short range isn't a problem either, the range is just too small, the infection appears too quick and kills too quick before it can do really much harm.
Ebola wasn't really a problem either. It also kills too fast.
Forget what any media says about such things. I remember the big riot they made with SARS, and what happened? The death toll was extremly small for a oh-so-dangerous infection. Media knows jack about such things.
You know what would really suck?
Smallpox.
Scouserlande
11-04-2005, 17:27
http://www.promedmail.org/pls/promed/f?p=2400:1001:4847528285825119276::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1000,28641
It's only a matter of time before someone gets on a plane and goes somewhere else with this.
pffft have you SEEN outbreak
a dustin hoffman/morgan freeman super team will save us all at the last minute.
Bunnyducks
11-04-2005, 17:27
They used to say that Ebola was not airborne, but the Reston Ebola was proven to be airborne. And we all remember how many million people Reston Ebola killed...
Edit: sure, Marburg may be bad, but I still think the Zombies are a bigger problem.
Whispering Legs
11-04-2005, 17:28
Short range isn't a problem either, the range is just too small, the infection appears too quick and kills too quick before it can do really much harm.
A week or two incubation period. Followed by rapid death, for which there is no treatment, and for which hospitals usually close to avoid becoming the source of infection.
You also have to add in the panic factor. If someone from Angola landed in Portugal (which they do every day), and you heard on the news that up to a dozen people in Portugal had Marburg, and they were closing the hospitals there, just watch the panic that would spread further, faster, and harder than the infection.
Whispering Legs
11-04-2005, 17:28
And we all remember how many million people Reston Ebola killed...
It didn't kill any humans. But it did kill all the monkeys, even the ones who had not had any cross-contamination.
Bunnyducks
11-04-2005, 17:30
It didn't kill any humans. But it did kill all the monkeys, even the ones who had not had any cross-contamination.
See, now we just have to keep the monkies with Marburg from flying. Easy.