Community Chat

[JaneMarple]

The ban lifted?   NO!

[viva923]

Boy this is a HUGE PANDORA box.

To many deadly viruses once they start they will kill and there will be no cures if there is a cure of some sort to many people will die before a cure can be made and given to people

[cherry]

The pandemic in   1914 or so ,killed  10 of millions of people. Strong husky young men were dead in just a few  hours after contracting

it.. It got to Alaska via the mail ,and almost wiped out the entire population

[SilleeMee]

The Marburg virus has a natural host, that of a bat. People and other primates come in contact with bat droppings then get infected through mucous membranes and open wounds. It is also a STD. Marburg virus is considered to be the most dangerous virus on Earth.

[cherry]

@SilleeMee  does anyone ever survive that virus?

[SilleeMee]

According to WHO it has an average fatality rate of 50% but can be as high as 88% depending on the strain and how well treatment is handled within an infected community. This virus is in the same family of viruses as Ebola, another hemorrhagic virus that (warning graphic)

Spoiler

turns everything inside you into a bloody gel

[Cakers3]

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@cherry wrote:

The pandemic in   1914 or so ,killed  10 of millions of people. Strong husky young men were dead in just a few  hours after contracting

it.. It got to Alaska via the mail ,and almost wiped out the entire population

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@cherry  That pandemic wiped out the first set of children my MIL's parents had-the parents survived and started another family where my MIL came from.

We have been to the little graves of the first set of chldren.  Tiny little headstones.

[stevieb]

Sooner or later, we're going to find some way of destroying everything that matters anyway... We've been gradually doing it for centuries. I suppose this just hurries it along... 

[Cakers3]

jmoymmv but deadly pathogens already exist in labs everywhere.  Whether this ban being lifted increases jeopardizing us even more is a toss-up.

If vaccines are the ultimate goal, then perhaps the research is important enough to continue.

Anything can happen; already existing viruses can be released just as easilty as anything created without this ban.

Let's not forget that what is already out there (outside of labs) can mutate on its own.

Biological disasters bother me more than nuclear disasters.

[Moonchilde]

Learning something! I consider myself well-read as far as news and especially medical news, but I hadn’t heard of Marburg before. Wow.