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    The outbreak in Angola keeps spreading and now 4 neighboring countries are considered at risk. How long before an infected person boards a plane and spreads it beyond Africa?
    “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

    ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

  • #2
    12 Monkeys!

    We'll all be living underground!
    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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    • #3
      Re: Marburg Spreading

      Originally posted by pchang
      an infected person boards a plane and spreads it beyond Africa
      The enemy cannot push a button if you disable his hand.

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      • #4
        I guess Ingrid wants to die of a hemorrhagic fever.
        “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

        ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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        • #5
          Outbreak was also a good movie based on the theme.

          the bbc has some info here:

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          Sounds pretty bad

          I wonder if, like in Outbreak, these kind of events will ever be linked to some scientific military black ops type scenario?
          'The very basis of the liberal idea – the belief of individual freedom is what causes the chaos' - William Kristol, son of the founder of neo-conservitivism, talking about neo-con ideology and its agenda for you.info here. prove me wrong.

          Bush's Republican=Neo-con for all intent and purpose. be afraid.

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          • #6
            bump

            This could very quickly lead to a fubar-situation if it spreads to any major airport (places like Heathrow, JFK).

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            • #7
              We had an Ebola outbreak in my home town...

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              • #8
                Originally posted by TCO
                We had an Ebola outbreak in my home town...
                Yes, but that one was only deadly to monekys.
                “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

                ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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                • #9
                  12 monkeys is one weird movie.

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                  • #10
                    When I first saw the movie, I was sorely disappointed in the lack of monkeys.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by pchang


                      Yes, but that one was only deadly to monekys.
                      Chemical testing indicated the most deadly "Zaire" strain, but only a couple people got sick (light fever and stomache upset) and they recovered fine, so evidently it is a new strain closely related to Zaire, but less deadly to humans. It ****ed the monkeys up something good though. And the samples of virus from that outbreak are still treated as class 4. I wouldn't want em in my fridge...

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                      • #12
                        And they had to call the army in, for real.

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                        • #13
                          I dont see how this would be a real problem unless someone started bleeding everywhere.
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                          • #14
                            Class 4 containment eh? That's some serious sh*t...
                            Speaking of Erith:

                            "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                            • #15
                              Re: Marburg Spreading

                              Originally posted by pchang
                              The outbreak in Angola keeps spreading and now 4 neighboring countries are considered at risk. How long before an infected person boards a plane and spreads it beyond Africa?
                              Good thing is the virus strikes so quickly that such an event is highly unlikely.
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