Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Originally Posted by Mannlicher
it's unavoidable that Ebola will be in America, and I am pretty certain it will be a real problem. We have great health care facilities and doctors, but they could be quickly overwhelmed.
Apparently, human to human transmission is difficult enough that, outside of the tropics, its transmission is almost exclusively through close contact, like that required of healthcare workers with patients, thus outbreaks outside the tropics shouldn't be possible. Within the tropics, by contrast, there appear to be other modes of transmission supported by environmental conditions there, thus encouraging and sustaining outbreaks. Still no reason to intentionally bring it here, as who knows how modes of transmission can change via mutation. Why tempt fate?


You've studied evolution. The problem with bacteria and viruses is they go through generations quickly, and as a result evolve quickly. If it gets here, we will have to kill it quickly or well have a real problem on our hands.

You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.

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