Whatever happened to Ebola being the "most dangerous and infectious virus on the planet"??? Was the movie Outbreak complete B.S.???

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When it gets serious, you have to lie. Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the ECB.

Outbreak was a fictional movie about a fictional illness called Motaba.

at this point i think nukes might really be big TnT bombs.

It mutated. Ebola, about five outbreaks ago, was nearly 90% fatal, but it had NO incubation period (or very little)and you died in a matter of day or more.

So, like most living things, it adapted. It traded off it's ability to kill for a longer lifespan. Now it takes a week to show symptoms, a week to kill (roughly), but it only kills about 50 percent of those who catch it.

Before this outbreak had even gotten this serious I remember listening to a conspiracy radio broadcast that had a geneticist on discussing how mutations occur. He went over in great detail about it was hard for Ebola to mutate because killing people so quickly didn't give it a chance to sample all the DNA out there (people), but it was only a matter of time.

NOW we have Ebola thriving in certain areas of the globe. It literally doesn't matter WHAT we do with our Ebola case in Texas. If we don't stop it from spreading it in Africa it WILL come here. It's a friggen game of Plague Inc only IRL. The US is not an island. Even if we close our borders and shut down all flights, animals could bring it over and we would all die. Maybe not all of, but at least 25% if it mutates and becomes airborne. Not "airborne" like it is now....but literally Ebola Flu.

It was not ebola in the movie, it was mombai virus. I just watched it

The virus used in the films
28 DAYS LATER and 28 WEEKS LATER
was in fact Ebola which mutated into RAGE.

All you have to do to see how NOT DANGEROUS ebola is is to google image "ebola victim." You will find only three or four pictures of people who have had it.

To complete the test, then google image "smallpox victim." You will see hundreds, probably thousands, of pictures of terrible suffering, because smallpox has actually had a big effect on the world, through the years.

Judging from the pictures, ebola has not, despite being "discovered" in the seventies, had that large of an effect.

A word to the wise is sufficient.

Have never watched that movie but I am wondering the same thing..All through school,etc thats all you heard was..if you get it you are dead and so is everyone else and its extremely contagious,etc..now we see all this stuff and not even common caution is being taken

Ebola is one of the most deadliest virus' on earth..they are doing a great injustice by lying to uneducated people about it

Replier I quoted above has defined Denial...


Denial is at work BigTime in America.
"Can't happen here. We have best facilities and brightest medical brains on the planet."!!!


Got any food put by?
Got what you might need to shelter in-place for a few months?

Not many do.


This is the way the world ends! Not with a bang, but a whimper.... TS Elliot The Hollow Men...

You mean a science fiction movie about a fictional virus? They didn't even call it Ebola and there are dozens of hemorrhagic fevers to choose from. Also, haven't they established that this current outbreak has only a 60-65% mortality rate compared to like 95% in the past?

Not to say Ebola isn't scary shit but everyone seems to be freaking out just because the media tells them to.

Fine, but CLOSING THE BORDER and NOT HAVING ANY INBOUND OR OUTBOUND FLIGHTS carrying Africans would make sense!!

this is not correct. it was genetically engineered to have these new traits. the one test showed such a significant change in genome that it would be nearly impossible for it to have randomly mutated to that stage without having any intermediary stages.

this is a forced situation to create a response so they can roll out their preplanned `solutions.`

My god man. That was a Zaire strain motaba

Ebola is a concern, but does not justify going full retard like some on this site have done.
Chances are good that you will die if you get ebola, but
chances are good you won't get it, it is hard to get.
Like leprosy, which is actually hard to get, but scares people because of its effects

everyone should read the hot zone [link to en.wikipedia.org]

true story, there was an airborne ebola a couple miles outside washington DC and it leaked and would have wiped out DC but it was airborne chimp ebola and luckily didn't spread to humans. good thing they were researching ebola so close to the capitol

I like a good farie tale. You are pretty good at it. I wonder how many people think that you are serious?

Airborne chimp ebola?

Perhaps the flying monkeys on the Wizard of Oz were real?

Motaba was based on ebola. Ebola is named after the ebola river, the writer chose a river close to the ebola river called the Motaba river. The story was inspired by the book "the hot zone" about ebola. In the movie Motaba spread through the same means as ebola, but they claim Motaba has a 100% death rate which made me lol, that would make it less deadly then ebola as it would burn itself out sooner

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Never watched it. Kinda wish I did now.

It isn't anything to joke about. this really happened and if it would have made the leap to humans the world would have changed instantly. Millions would have died and DC would have gone down in weeks leading to political and military instability.

If it's true, it's nothing to joke about. Since it is not true, I think Airborne Chimps and Flying Monkeys are funny. Perhaps Disney will make a movie.

I'm reading the book Hot Zone right now. Throughout, the terror of exposure by the scientists working on it in labs is what is scaring me. This is a biohazard 4 pathogen. This book and the scientists in it show how frightening and potentially devastating it can be. This doesn't make the "assurances" by CDC or anyone else very believable. This is the Zaire version. It's pretty darn bad. The book also explores the utter stupidity of the battle between military control of a potential outbreak and the CDC. They fight over who gets to handle it. Just the kind of thing we need now. But the descriptions of the deaths in the book aren't what we are seeing. We aren't seeing the "bleeding out" images of people that I can see. How people recover from liquefaction of their organs doesn't seem likely to me. I don't honestly know what to think of this. I'm waiting to see if any of the people living with Duncan come down with it.

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They weren't researching ebola, they were testing cosmetics and drugs on monkeys (not chimps). The monkeys already had ebola when they got there.

You know, this is exactly what I have been wondering. They are playing it down like it's not a threat at all, and I remember as a kid when Ebola was first talked about and it was terrifying. They always said if it made it out of the jungle the world would be in trouble. Well, here it is is in major cities no less, and the play down is ridiculous.

People have a right to know how bad it actually is, and it is a lot more contagious than they are letting on, otherwise how would entire villages be wiped out? I would take everything you hear from MSN and from the CDC with a grain of salt, what do YOU think the threat level is of this virus is? They won't tell anyone how bad it is until it's too late, and that's a fact. Trust your gut on this one.

It was a movie!
Your first clue

Movies aside....I learned about ebola when I was younger, back in school and college and various science books and shows.

...and it was always portrayed as same category as smallpox, but much nastier....shit that only samples of were kept in labs where you had to go like 3 levels below ground, through all kinds of security, wearing full spacesuit ppe hooked to an oxygen line just to get a petrie dish out of a safe to view under a microscope...
......
....and if you dropped the sample the whole facility would go on lockdown.

....you go through life with that view of the thing and then see how they are treating the situation in Dallas and it makes absolutely no sense at all.