wkmac
Well-Known Member
Tooner,
Drive makes a good point of the survival and thus the mortality rate. In my OP, I linked the CDC's database on Ebola from 1976' to current. There's no argument this current outbreak is larger than previous and thus begs the question, what has changed? Thus why I asked it.
Did the virus mutate which viruses do or was there an environmental change that helped the disease spread? What caused it to explode so to speak?
And no I don't believe it's an act of terrorism or some other nefarious cause. Upstate also makes a good point of not over reacting or becoming hysterical. One can then be driven by the agenda's of others which serve self interests. Right now I would take an observant view and ask critical question and apply critical thinking to all sides of this event.
Everything I've read seems to me that the CDC et al believe the source of Ebola is the consumption of monkey and bat meat, hence the reason the outbreaks of Ebola always begin in a certain area of Africa. Is said meat the environmental change for example?
Ebola has been around nearly 40 years in very favorable conditions in Africa sanitation wise that Drive rightly pointed out. If the disease is so bad as we are led to believe, why hasn't the population in that part of Africa not been all but wiped out? Look at the CDC link I posted that records the number of cases year to year since 1976', location and in some measure cause. Then look at the few cases to occur outside of Africa, the conditions and root source. A number of human exposures outside of Africa were lab exposures when protocols were broken. Yet in all that time, people were traveling in and out of Africa and yet no measurable cases emerged.
As horribly upsetting as the situation in Texas is, especially for those close to it, it will be interesting to watch in the weeks ahead just to see what happens. I'm not convinced based on the disease history in Africa it's some kind of end of the world event but seems we've crossed the Rubicon and will now test that theory.
Regardless of anything else, stay calm because you can't think in hysteria.
Drive makes a good point of the survival and thus the mortality rate. In my OP, I linked the CDC's database on Ebola from 1976' to current. There's no argument this current outbreak is larger than previous and thus begs the question, what has changed? Thus why I asked it.
Did the virus mutate which viruses do or was there an environmental change that helped the disease spread? What caused it to explode so to speak?
And no I don't believe it's an act of terrorism or some other nefarious cause. Upstate also makes a good point of not over reacting or becoming hysterical. One can then be driven by the agenda's of others which serve self interests. Right now I would take an observant view and ask critical question and apply critical thinking to all sides of this event.
Everything I've read seems to me that the CDC et al believe the source of Ebola is the consumption of monkey and bat meat, hence the reason the outbreaks of Ebola always begin in a certain area of Africa. Is said meat the environmental change for example?
Ebola has been around nearly 40 years in very favorable conditions in Africa sanitation wise that Drive rightly pointed out. If the disease is so bad as we are led to believe, why hasn't the population in that part of Africa not been all but wiped out? Look at the CDC link I posted that records the number of cases year to year since 1976', location and in some measure cause. Then look at the few cases to occur outside of Africa, the conditions and root source. A number of human exposures outside of Africa were lab exposures when protocols were broken. Yet in all that time, people were traveling in and out of Africa and yet no measurable cases emerged.
As horribly upsetting as the situation in Texas is, especially for those close to it, it will be interesting to watch in the weeks ahead just to see what happens. I'm not convinced based on the disease history in Africa it's some kind of end of the world event but seems we've crossed the Rubicon and will now test that theory.
Regardless of anything else, stay calm because you can't think in hysteria.
