The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' What went wrong?

Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by redis_mlc on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:27PM (#23408233)

> 100-year event that might never come

SARS-1 (2003) and MERS are recent coronaviruses, and Ebola re-occurs every other year.

SARS-1 had a similar effect on Toronto hospitals as the current COVID-19 on NYC, with staff wiped out.

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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by redis_mlc on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @07:21PM (#23410234)

Actually, if anybody knows why Ebola keeps re-occurring every 2-3 years (according to the CDC), I'd be curious to know why.

You'd think a disease that fatal (over 50%) would wipe itself out. Or maybe, horrors, it's really that bad!

In 2014, the US had a cluster of Ebola cases, and was totally unprepared, with one patient and 2 nurses getting infected:

"[nurse] went home in the scrubs she wore while treating Duncan [for Ebola]."

That transmission was via an airline passenger from Liberia.

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