On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:00 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are two rays of hope here: > > 1) That the high rate of infection in Africa will allow evolution toward > greater ambulatory transmission of the virus. This sounds nonsensical at > first but you need to understand evolutionary medicine and optimal > virulence. There is a good chance the virus will have, among its _many_ > mutations, a less virulent strain that allows its victim to remain > ambulatory longer and thereby spread it faster than a strain that > incapacitates its victim. This creates an evolutionary direction toward a > longer period of contagion but lowers its virulence. There is, of course, > a huge human cost to this evolution. > > 2) The Japanese have had, since September 2, a 30 minute Ebola test that > they have been ready to mass produce -- unfortunately while the US twiddles > its thumbs waiting for an event such as the one that just occurred in > Dallas to wake up the slumbering fools. > > More pessimistically: The Ebola Epidemiology They Won't Talk About <http://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-ebola-epidemiology-they-wont-talk.html>
