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Depends on the strain. Ebola Sudan, for instance, is 50%. Looks like Marburg is comparable to Ebola Zaire.
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Previous experience with Marburg showed a lower mortality rate (~70%). This one seems worse and is disproportionately affecting children 5 years and under. Poor healthcare resources may be a factor in the higher mortality rate. They should tap the survivors for anti-bodies.“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.”
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High mortality rate is probably better in the grand scheme of things, cuz it'll burn itself out.Comment
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High mortality rate is probably better in the grand scheme of things, cuz it'll burn itself out.
Not necessarily. Depends on the gestation period.Comment
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What gestation period?(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
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I don't know whether it's the proper term, but how long does it take from infection to first symptoms? I mean there has to be sometime where a person is infected, transmits the desease but doesn't bleed out of his rectum, or something.Comment
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Incubation period, latent period.Comment
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That was just a question intended to show negation.Originally posted by Az
I don't know whether it's the proper term, but how long does it take from infection to first symptoms? I mean there has to be sometime where a person is infected, transmits the desease but doesn't bleed out of his rectum, or something.
AFAIK, the Marburg virus starts very quickly.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
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I think it requires about 72 hours. This is enough time for someone to get on a place.“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.”
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