Ebola: The tolling bell

Post by noir_lord » Sat, Oct 04, 2014, 1:50 PM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #30

jliptzin wrote: post #11

I read somewhere about a black market for ebola survivor blood. At first I misread the title and thought it meant a black market for ebola-infected blood (or ebola-infected cadavers). Now that is a truly scary possibility - terrorists intentionally infecting themselves with ebola, then going into airports and other high density areas, infecting surfaces and as many people as they can before succumbing (or maybe even…

Terrorists could have done that years ago with AIDS or Hepatitis C but they never have - it's not obviously an effective propaganda tool and religious terrorists are likely to have hangups about dying in an unclean fashion.

Post by bjornsing » Sat, Oct 04, 2014, 10:41 PM UTC

bjornsing wrote: post #48

Does anybody know how the (immune) survivors are engaged in the health care system of the affected countries? The treatment itself doesn't seem so advanced, it's main challenge being not getting infected. Being immune would be a huge advantage.

Post by startupfounder » Sun, Oct 05, 2014, 7:34 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #39

jMyles wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually want to know the answer to this question. Mostly because I think the odds are remote, yet it happens more often than is reasonable to predict. Thus, I suppose I believe in a sort of synchronicity. I'm not sure if I realized that before.

> Mostly because I think the odds are remote, yet it happens more often than is reasonable to predict. It happens as often as you should be able to predict it. This usually indicates a limited access to relevant data rather than some kind of exotic mechanism.