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RE: A crucial time for the Ebola response effort in The Congo
A really nice post (as usual for you, you make some of my favorite content on STEEM). Hemorrhagic fevers like ebola are particularly scary just due to the high likelihood of mortality associated. However one comfort about them is still the difficulty in transmissible. They would honestly be much more scary if they didn't kill so many of their hosts... as then they would spread much faster!
Hey, thanks! Yeah I couldn't agree more, this disease would get very little traction in high-income countries. The long incubation period is an issue when it comes to how far it can move but it's still relatively hard to accidentally infect another individual when symptoms start showing. That's why its so frustrating to see it spreading, we should be done with this kind of shit by now and instead worrying about, for instance, how easy it would be to resurrect smallpox instead, (very easy as it turns out). Not that we can't worry about both, I do for sure!
Oh god. I don't want to think about small pox. XD