Ebola Virus spreading to Sierra Leon.

[TVR1]

It doesn't get too far usually. But it's now broken out of an unpopulated area. 37 dead.

Should we be worried?

[TheEnd]

There's a few Leons about, but not many Sierras, so we'll probably scrape by.

[Mobile Chicane]

Don't sit next to any 'darkies' on the Tube. You'll be fine.







The above is a piss-take, obviously. I would hope.

[dandarez]

Mobile Chicane said:

Don't sit next to any 'darkies' on the Tube. You'll be fine.







The above is a piss-take, obviously. I would hope.

hope?

Don't worry, I'll be the first to post the Wail link to your court appearance.

[otolith]

See, if I were an Al Quaeda sort, I'd be sending some martyrs to that outbreak to bring me some live virus home, and then I'd be sending out some very ill suicide bombers. I find it hard to believe that hasn't occurred to them.

[northwest monkey]

otolith said:

See, if I were an Al Quaeda sort, I'd be sending some martyrs to that outbreak to bring me some live virus home, and then I'd be sending out some very ill suicide bombers. I find it hard to believe that hasn't occurred to them.

There's even instructions available on how to do it

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Executive-Orders-Jack-Ryan...

[Art0ir]

The Twelve Monkeys is something similar.

[RobDickinson]

Ebola is nasty. But as a virus its a poor one. Doesnt spread via air and acts too quickly to spread far any other way.

[DS3R]

RobDickinson said:

But as a virus its a poor one.

At the moment. Mutation may not be our friend.

[trickywoo]

There is a school of thought that the Black Death epidemics had links to this and not just simply plague.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

That's when I knew I was overweight. The doctor told be I had ebola, and only had 45 years to live.

[otolith]

northwest monkey said:

There's even instructions available on how to do it

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Executive-Orders-Jack-Ryan...

I get the impression that the biowarfare plot in that is somewhat more sophisticated than sending someone to an outbreak to infect himself and the performing an incubation period relay race to smuggle it home? You couldn't cause a serious outbreak in the West, it's too hard to catch and our medical facilities are too good, but you could infect a lot of people at the scene and spread a lot of terror.

[Pommygranite]

Given Dubai is a major hub for flights from African origins we are all quite literally 2 flights from death

[Terminator X]

Just out of interest how do these spontaneous outbreaks occur ie not there before but now it is?

TX.

[RobDickinson]

Terminator X said:

Just out of interest how do these spontaneous outbreaks occur ie not there before but now it is?

TX.

That's the billion dollar question! No one knows where it comes from, monkeys are suspect but who knows.

[northwest monkey]

otolith said:

northwest monkey said:

There's even instructions available on how to do it

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Executive-Orders-Jack-Ryan...

I get the impression that the biowarfare plot in that is somewhat more sophisticated than sending someone to an outbreak to infect himself and the performing an incubation period relay race to smuggle it home? You couldn't cause a serious outbreak in the West, it's too hard to catch and our medical facilities are too good, but you could infect a lot of people at the scene and spread a lot of terror.

It's actually quite an enjoyable book. It's Tom Clancy, so gets a bit "USA, USA" in places, but the actual premise of the book is very interesting and, to my untrained eyes, quite believable.

[ShawCrossShark]

northwest monkey said:

It's actually quite an enjoyable book. It's Tom Clancy, so gets a bit "USA, USA" in places, but the actual premise of the book is very interesting and, to my untrained eyes, quite believable.

Funnily enough I am just reading it again at the moment

Interesting to know if there really is a Mayinga strain that is suspected of being airborne

[Art0ir]

Bats are also suspected of being carriers.

[KemP]

I read Biohazard by Ken Alibek not so long ago and its it a great insight into bio virus/weaponry.

[otolith]

KemP said:

I read Biohazard by Ken Alibek not so long ago and its it a great insight into bio virus/weaponry.

Terrifying book. Also try Richard Preston's "The Demon In The Freezer".