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Do you have a bigger chance of dying by a Russian takeover, disappearing on an airplane in Malaysia or dying from a Level 4 virus?
"Health officials in Guinea battled to contain west Africa's first outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus as neighbouring Liberia reported its first suspected victims and a traveller returning to Canada was hospitalised with suspicious symptoms. At least 59 people are known to have died in Guinea's southern forests and there are six suspected cases in Liberia which, if confirmed, would mark the first spread of the highly contagious pathogen into another country. And there are fears the virus may have crossed continents, with a man returning to Canada from Liberia seriously ill in hospital after experiencing symptoms consistent with the virus, health officials said."
Has anyone ever read the nonfiction book #1 NY Times Bestseller, "The Hot Zone" (1994) by Richard Preston? Stephen King called it "One of the most horrifying things I've ever read." From the book:
A man is sitting on a bench in a hospital in Africa with red eyes and bruised skin.
"Suddenly he goes into the last phase - the human virus bomb explodes. Military biohazard specialists have a way of describing this occurence. They say that the victim has "crashed and bled out." He becomes dizzy and utterly weak and his spine goes limp and nerveless and he loses all sense of balance. The room is turning around and around. He is going into shock. He leans over, head on his knees, and brings up an incredible quantity of blood from his stomach and spills onto the floor with a gasping groan. He loses consciousness and pitches forward onto the floor. The only sound is choking in his throat as he continues to vomit blood and black matter while unconscious. Then comes the sound like a bedsheet being torn in half, which is the sound of his bowels opening and venting blood from the anus mixed with intestinal lining. He has sloughed his gut. The linings of his intestines have come off and are being expelled with huge amounts of blood. Monet has crashed and is bleeding out...Having destroyed its host, the hot agent is now coming out of every orifice and is "trying" to find a new host."
I highly recommend the book. You can read a much larger excerpt from the book here if you are interested:
Could you imagine if the highly contagious Ebola was brought into some large crowded US or European city not necessarily by terrorism but simply by a traveler stepping off a plane?
Putin is not as scary as bleeding out.
Does Obamacare cover Level 4 viruses? Might be one way to increase sign-ups.
This scares me. There is a man in quarantine in Canada right now who may have picked up the virus in Liberia. He was incubating it on the plane ride home, but they say it isn't contagious unless someone is in contact with bodily fluids, like blood, sweat, vomit, etc. Let's hope they contain this thing. If this person does have Ebola, it will be the first time it has ever moved to a different continent.
This scares me. There is a man in quarantine in Canada right now who may have picked up the virus in Liberia. He was incubating it on the plane ride home, but they say it isn't contagious unless someone is in contact with bodily fluids, like blood, sweat, vomit, etc. Let's hope they contain this thing. If this person does have Ebola, it will be the first time it has ever moved to a different continent.
Extremely terrifying! I was reading 21 day incubation period before symptoms show. People have been flying out of Guinea every day, so it could be anywhere.
The Hot Zone was absolutely riveting for the first two chapters (which takes the reader through the Symptoms and pathogen spread) but runs out of gas after that. The narrative opens as a thriller and settles into what seems like a non-fiction dissertation on the mystery of the virus.
Still enjoyed it though.
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