Normally, when I say Were all going to die, Im speaking existentially, not epidemiologically, but this is an exception. In a worst-case hypothetical scenario, should the outbreak continue with recent trends, the case burden could gain an additional 77,181 to 277,124 cases by the end of 2014. ... “The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has the potential to alter history as much as any plague has ever done.” ... an Ebola virus could mutate to become transmissible through the air… viruses like Ebola are notoriously sloppy in replicating, meaning the virus entering one person may be genetically different from the virus entering the next. The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented; there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past four months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years. Each new infection represents trillions of throws of the genetic dice.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:07:31 +0000
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