Epidemic = Occurring more frequently than it should. Pandemic = Spreading over a larger area than it should. Am a lil' etchy on those.
K thnx.
And rats = Most common mammal in teh worlds? Never seen one in my life, I live in HOUSTON, TX, though.
Well, that's statistics for you. There might be zero in Houston, but like an infestation in Georgia, and then when you add it all up, it looks like they're everywhere.
Yeah, According to the article we got a 4/5 infected, Maybe the four were weak troopers.
A local, three nurses, and a doctor. The local might've been more subsceptible to disease and fatality due to improper medical supplies and prolonged exposure, but the others caught it in the facility itself, so they had instant access to medical.
Same family, but the symptoms too longer to kill the patient. It's probably just a sub-virus. An article like this one is only put out to scare the general public, just like all the swine flu ones. If you practice good hygiene, and take care of yourself, you'll be fine.
As for fear of Ebola being in the same class as this bad boy in % (Though we know more about Ebola) you can only get it from touching/further receiving the blood of the infected victim, which is pretty easy to do if your close and they're dying from it (Seeing as the bursting organs leak blood out through all the holes in your body as you slowly bleed and defunction to death)
But anyway, It does sound like the Bubonic Plague. But whats worse, is if SmallPox Leaked. We'd have a world crisis.
So they base this 80% figure on just five infections? What if one person was infected and died? Does that mean this virus has a 100% fatality rate?
Five infections is not enough to determine a fatality rate. Not only that, it was in South Africa, which has a below average health system (the past two presidents believed that HIV was not linked to AIDS for crying out loud)!
