A burial team remove a Ebola victim's body from isolation in Sierra Leone
Doomsday Warning: UN Ebola Chief Raises 'Nightmare' Prospect That Virus Could Mutate And Become Airborne - Making It Much More Infectious -- Daily Mail
* UN warns Ebola virus currently plaguing West Africa could become airborne
* The longer it moves between human hosts the greater possibility of mutation
* The risk grows the longer virus is living within the human 'melting pot'
* NGOs have said the Ebola virus is currently infecting five people every hour
* More than 3,300 people have died from Ebola since the outbreak first began
* Officials call for 1,000 new Sierra Leone isolation centres to contain virus
* British survivor says 'horror' of children dying from disease must be avoided
* Will Pooley was first Briton to contract virus after working in Sierra Leone
* Thomas Eric Duncan is the first person to be diagnosed in the U.S.
* He flew into Texas from Liberia, touching down in Brussels and Washington
* Up to 100 people in Texas are feared to have come into contact with him
* Doctors at the hospital in Texas said he was in a serious but stable condition
The longer the Ebola epidemic continues infecting people unabated, the higher the chances it will mutate and become airborne, the UN's Ebola response chief has warned.
Anthony Banbury, the Secretary General's Special Representative, has said there is a 'nightmare' prospect the deadly disease will become airborne if it continues infecting new hosts.
His comments come as organisations battling the crisis in West Africa warned the international community has just four weeks to stop its spread before it spirals 'completely out of control'.
And the British nurse who survived the disease said the 'horror and misery' of watching young children die from the disease must be avoided 'at all costs'.
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My Comment: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is giving the world has only four weeks to stop the crisis from spiraling out of control .... 1 month to stop Ebola before it's 'totally out of control' - global aid NGO -- RT
4 comments:
Mutation doesn't occur over night, unless I'm mistaken, it takes decades or more for something like that to happen, and it's very unlikely to happen at that.
However, question is... Is it already airborne and we've been lied too? That this is just an attempt to 'test' the waters so to speak.
"That this is just an attempt to 'test' the waters so to speak." An interesting thought that should give pause.
" Officials call for 1,000 new Sierra Leone isolation centres to contain virus"
So what is one 25 bed facility built be Seabees going to do?
It will help, but is seems too little to late.
D.Plowman said...
"Mutation doesn't occur over night"
Would that not depend on the population size?
The size of the host pool?
Each host is a test tube so many different experiments are being run at the same time.
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