Ebola: will it be contained?

[Replay]

What do you say?

Yes or No

Poll please

 

[Replay]

Maybay...leaning towards No

 

[Mystic Twilight]

Statistically the world is due for a pandemic.

 

[Beachless]

In my opinion the longer it stays active the greater the chance it will mutate and we have a big problem on our hands.
I havent taken my makro card out to go buy 2 tons of rice and masks yet though.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Given where it is currently active.. the chances of it being contained are 0%

 

[maumau]

not contained is my vote.

 

[Replay]

Given where it is currently active.. the chances of it being contained are 0%

The biggest obstacle I see, is the long incubation period combined with cross border traveling.
From the time when symptoms start to show to the time when the person is actually diagnosed....it will be impossible to assess who else has been infected by contact with the original victim.

 

[BobsLawnService]

Yes.

It's the nature of the disease that there are flare ups but it soon burns itself out.

Also, malaria has killed many orders of magnitude more victims in the same time that Ebola has been active. It's just not a media darling right now.

 

[STS]

Kills the victim, happens quickly, hard to transmit. Being blown up and made a bigger threat than it actually is

 

[Sl8er]

I think we need to keep in mind that malaria can be treated and is spread through skeeters. Ebola can't really be treated and is spread through human contact -mostly. One only needs to look at HIV to see the Ebola "potential". Once it gets out it'll be close to impossible to stop...unless they find a cure.

 

[House]

No

 

[OGroteKoning]

I'd lean to no

 

[STS]

I think we need to keep in mind that malaria can be treated and is spread through skeeters. Ebola can't really be treated and is spread through human contact -mostly. One only needs to look at HIV to see the Ebola "potential". Once it gets out it'll be close to impossible to stop...unless they find a cure.

malaria is extremely mobile however as mosquitoes seek people out, Ebola is limited to the host and their surroundings, and if access to people is limited or prevented then the disease dies with the host

 

[Gezza]

I have already done a simulation on plague inc... Humanity will be destroyed. Sorry guys.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

So, to the folks who say 'no'. What do you think is gonna happen? Humanity done for?

 

[STS]

I have already done a simulation on plague inc... Humanity will be destroyed. Sorry guys.

Ebola is the Hard Mode of diseases, a disease is meant to reproduce and spread, Ebola kills its hosts too quickly and isn't terribly infectious. You have more luck catching a stomach bug from Kenya than ebola

 

[House]

So, to the folks who say 'no'. What do you think is gonna happen? Humanity done for?

No, humanity will not be done, but losses will be severe.

 

[Compton_effect]

Yes.
As with all other outbreaks - it will eventually burn out, with or without our help.
Number of victims? Not a clue, more than a serial killer, and less than a world war.

 

[Replay]

So, to the folks who say 'no'. What do you think is gonna happen? Humanity done for?

i think a cure is the only way out

 

[Sl8er]

malaria is extremely mobile however as mosquitoes seek people out, Ebola is limited to the host and their surroundings, and if access to people is limited or prevented then the disease dies with the host

Agreed...but....
Like influenza, it will probably eventually stop / become dormant, but if it isn't contained properly -which seems to be the case right now - it'll kill millions before it does. People are extremely mobile. Again, we're only to look at HIV to see the destructive potential.

EDIT
As an aside:
Yes, it's not as contagious as influenza...but people travel a whole lot more these days.