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Re:The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe (2005) by hanspeter on Monday April 18, 2016 @07:20AM (#11519009)
And the interesting thing about Ebola is that while it's not very contagious it is extremely infectious. Which means that you need contact with just a few virus particles to be infected.
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Re:The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe (2005) by Fomite on Monday April 18, 2016 @03:37PM (#11522550)
It turns out its not actually all that infectious either. It's just very, very hard to sustain not having contact with infectious fluid for very long.
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Re:The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe (2005) by cm2187 on Monday April 18, 2016 @07:23AM (#11519024)
And then it's game over, low survival rate. Which makes it scary but not very dangerous.
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Re:The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe (2005) by nonbel on Monday April 18, 2016 @07:51AM (#11519146)
I would bet the deadliness of Ebola has been overstated (at least by a little, probably by a lot). Like any infection, many people who get it are probably asymptomatic, and until recently the vast majority of people tested for it were most definitely symptomatic. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/15/ebola-study-fin...
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