If Vicious = a slow and lingering death, pain or deformity then Ebola is realtively clean (you only have hours or days of suffering rather then years and decades. Once of the issues with Ebola, and why it doesn't spread that far when outbreaks occur is that it is to efficent a killer. It kills faster then it can be passed on (in effect it's too good at what it does). It's an ugly, highly deadly virus but I don't think I'd call it vicious. Polio on the other hand has the possibility for a exceptionally wide spread with hospitals being filled with people who die if they don't get some pretty extreme medical attention and then after all that you are left with a population of severely disabled people or people that after 30 years (or so) end up with post-polio syndrome. If we didn't have a decent set of vaccines in place for the disease it would be a significantly more terrifying disease then it currently is. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002375/ The effect of polio can last long after you've had disease and some folks never recover from the paralysis that occurs with it. I guess what I'm saying is that your choice of virus depends on what your definition of vicious is. Quick death, or slow lingering decline hooked up to a machine breathing for you? -Sue
________________________________ From: Mike Adams <[email protected]> To: Susan Koziel <[email protected]>; Gurps Net <[email protected]>; StargruntsOOC <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 9:17:02 PM Subject: Re: Most Vicious Enemy Not enbola then? It hits hard and fast, very lethal and nasty. Popping cells and blood vessels? But its blood borne, so it will spread but slowly, if it was airborne it would eexpand quickly!, and its fast and almost 100% lethal. Mike Alaska http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Poetry-L/ Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
