Originally Posted by MILES58
Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye

Really?? Look at any map recording the history of Ebola outbreaks of any demographic significance. There are clear north and south borders suggested, paralleling specific latitudinal lines, centering in the middle tropics of the African continent, and this over many decades. I'd classify that as constituting at least some basis for concluding that its nature it that of a tropical disease.


You probably would classify it that way because you just haven't got the intellectual wherewithal to understand these are both diseases of humans, and that all humans are susceptible and they are not confined anywhere on the planet. You cannot have it both ways, either the disease presents a danger here or it does not.
Perhaps you'd like to explain how my statements thus far indicate to you a belief on my part that humans outside the tropics aren't susceptible to contracting Ebola. Humans being susceptible to contracting Ebola outside of its normal range, and its propensity for significant outbreak outside its normal range, aren't necessarily identical with one another.