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Agreed, Ebola is a public health threat much worse than Covid, There has been about 28 major outbreaks since 1976 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ebola_outbreaks ), so once again we are seeing more fear mongoring as this is not out of the ordinary unless it has been weaponized. Linking your post tomorrow @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

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I shudder to think what might happen if ebola were to get a running start in the US. Isn't it likely that an even higher percentage of cases in the US might be fatal, given that we have recently been systematically denied effective early treatment with medicines widely available in Africa?

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Ebola would burn itself out fairly quickly in the US, especially once it was identified. Because Ebola is not an airborne pathogen, once cases are identified isolation quickly limits the spread of the disease.

The biggest challenge would be dealing with the bedding and clothing from infected patients. Because contact with secretions and bodily fluids are the primary transmission vector, soiled bedding and clothing are devastatingly effective intermediary transmission modes.

Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever, not an influenza-like illness. To the best of my knowledge, Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are not effective against Ebola.

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So how is that effectively dealt with in areas where ebola is endemic? Burn the contaminated bedding and clothing? Seems do-able.

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My point is that once effective treatment has been blocked for one disease, effective treatment may be blocked for another (regardless of similarity between ailments or lack thereof).

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It is known that the various military bioweapon research groups have been attempting to create a hemorrhagic disease (Marburg) that it spread by mosquito (doesn't survive saliva glands) or airborne routes.

Considering the work we know has been successfully done to "vaccinate" people via mosquito, would 'encoding' Marburg in mRNA be achievable?

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