Ebola is coming to kill us all but it's nothing to worry about

gopher

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There is talk in our local tv media that one of the victims of this disease is the sister of a doctor who specialized in its treatment. We have had quite a number of Liberians and East Africans who moved to Gopherland and some are said to be carrying it. Let's hope all these fears don't turn out to be true.
 

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We could deal with an Ebola outbreak much better in the first world than they are doing in Africa. A lack of education and a lack of proper medical facilities makes it harder than normal.

HIV is still the main virus we need to be focused on conquering.
 

Tonington

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HIV is still the main virus we need to be focused on conquering.

Which one? Sorry, a little bit of geek humor there. After HIV infects a human, it starts making copies, and it happens to be very bad at it. In the process of going from RNA to DNA, HIV makes many random errors, which results in many different HIV genotypes. It's one of the properties that makes HIV so difficult to produce therapies for.
 

Tonington

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HIV-1 of course

Right, but what I'm driving at is that a person infected with HIV-1 or HIV-2 for that matter can have thousands of genetic variations in the different HIV viruses found. Any one of those could make any therapy that is found a moot point.
 

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that's why HIV still exists in 30 million humans today and has killed another 30 million. it has been difficult to treat and impossible to cure.

we're freaking out over ebola that's contained in west africa and likely will die out there when we have a much worse killer at home, it's ironic i guess.
 

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Barring a sudden and unexpected turn of events we're all going to die, from what is largely irrelevant!
 

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Mother Nature hitting the rest button... just get rid of 4.5 billion would be just about perfect.

The deadliest Ebola outbreak in recorded history is happening right now. The outbreak is unprecedented both in infection numbers...



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Tonington

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that's why HIV still exists in 30 million humans today and has killed another 30 million. it has been difficult to treat and impossible to cure.

we're freaking out over ebola that's contained in west africa and likely will die out there when we have a much worse killer at home, it's ironic i guess.

Well there are treatments available, and a diagnosis of HIV infection doesn't mean what it used to. People are living well into their senior years now. For Ebola, there's very little they can do. Hemorrhagic fever is an awful way to die.
 

JLM

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So what are we supposed to do? Die from an ulcer worrying about something that may never happen?