Ebola virus in Guinea ‘most aggressive, near totally fatal’

[OneManGang]

Didnt they say bats are a natural host of the eboli. And the same is a delicacy in Guniea

I'm not sure of the bolded, but i have read that bats in that area are natural reservoirs of the ebola virus. There is some data to suggest it is found in some parts of Asia as well, though there hasnt been any significant outbreak there as yet. The issue is not eating the animals though, its the preparation of them. Cooked food removes many pathogens but while preparing you can imagine the mixing of blood and skin and any open wounds can let blood mix etc. Also monkeys eat the bat droppings and in turn humans eat the monkey. That has been a proposed transmission route.

 

[Poitier]

Have they isolated the source of the breakout? I assume not

They claim it is bushmeat, which is plausible, but why Africa is so prone to disease from bushmeat and Asia and South America aren't is a bit questionable.

 

[Ego Noir]

The news here just glazes over this gut whats the update, is the rate of infection still high or have they somewhat contained it?

I hear alot of countries in that pocket have closed borders halted trade etc.

 

[OneManGang]

They claim it is bushmeat, which is plausible, but why Africa is so prone to disease from bushmeat and Asia and South America aren't is a bit questionable.

People forget about how many people died from SARS and bird flu. None of those were traced back to Africa. Nipah virus killed mad people throughout Asia/Australia and that was traced back to Malaysians not preparing their pig properly from farms that were eating bat droppings.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

They claim it is bushmeat, which is plausible, but why Africa is so prone to disease from bushmeat and Asia and South America aren't is a bit questionable.

Because certain animals harbor it.

Its just the reason.

Some species are more vulnerable to things than others. Its the same reason why monkeys are vulnerable to Reston virus (non-pathogenic in humans) although its a "cousin" of ebola

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

The news here just glazes over this gut whats the update, is the rate of infection still high or have they somewhat contained it?

I hear alot of countries in that pocket have closed borders halted trade etc.

We need travel bans in all honesty.

 

[Poitier]

Because certain animals harbor it.

Its just the reason.

Some species are more vulnerable to things than others. Its the same reason why monkeys are vulnerable to Reston virus (non-pathogenic in humans) although its a "cousin" of ebola

Ebola, sure, but this isn't credible with SIV/HIV/Aids

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Ebola, sure, but this isn't credible with SIV/HIV/Aids

Its plenty credible.

SIV mutates rapidly and all it takes is the right version to inflect a human. There have probably been tons of cases where non-pathogenic forms of SIV or FIV (and theres cow and mice versions too) were in humans but didn't cause disease.

I really think you need to look into a few courses on how viruses work and mutate.

 

[Poitier]

Its plenty credible.

SIV mutates rapidly and all it takes is the right version to inflect a human. There have probably been tons of cases where non-pathogenic forms of SIV or FIV (and theres cow and mice versions too) were in humans but didn't cause disease.

I really think you need to look into a few courses on how viruses work and mutate.

Yah I'm not buying the story on how it crossed over. Sounds like a racist's wet dream.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Yah I'm not buying the story on how it crossed over. Sounds like a racist's wet dream.

Do you not understand that immunodeficient viruses have been discovered in dozens of other species?

 

[Type Username Here]

Yah I'm not buying the story on how it crossed over. Sounds like a racist's wet dream.

 

[Poitier]

Do you not understand that immunodeficient viruses have been discovered in dozens of other species?

I have no qualms with SIV and its pathology. I don't buy 2 different strands fusing and spreading via a single Bantu man.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I have no qualms with SIV and its pathology. I don't buy 2 different strands fusing and spreading via a single Bantu man.

But you don't have a problem with it happening in south asians as it relates to bird flu

 

[Poitier]

But you don't have a problem with it happening in south asians as it relates to bird flu

Bird flu isn't highly correlated with race like HIV.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Bird flu isn't highly correlated with race like HIV.

It is actually. There are more cases of avian influenza deviates in South Asian than other places.

Thats because Bird Flu originates in one place and HIV in another.