From: Karen Rand Smigrodzki (KarenSmi@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 19:14:38 MST
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From: "Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 7:00 PM
Subject: RE: SARS: update
> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote,
> > I am still not convinced we are in great danger. Ebola and West
> > Nile virus also looked bad but never panned out as pandemics.
>
> Very true. However, those outbreaks didn't spread on airplanes around the
> globe. I think this will become an epidemic, similar to other recent
> influenza epidemics. However, it should be noted that the death rate for
> this virus is about 3.5%, which is actually less than regular influenza.
>
> --
> Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC
> <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
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Sorry, again, Harvey. I am wrong about the transmission of Ebola on
airlines. I can't find any reference to it. I think I was thinking of
Marburg virus which is the only other member of the virus family that Ebola
is in. I was also thinking of the many times that people suffering from
Ebola did travel on airlines; whether any passengers were infected was not
known at the time. The only Ebola species I can find reference to presently
as having done a lot of world travel is the one which humans form antibodies
to, but do not become ill from.
-- karen
karen@smigrodzki.org
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