Quote from: RodeoX on October 15, 2014, 04:15:20 PM

Quote from: TonyT on October 15, 2014, 03:34:43 PM

Quote from: RodeoX on October 13, 2014, 02:26:38 PM

I work on pandemic flu response. It's no joke and one day it will break out and kill millions and millions of us. Flu is a threat magnitudes of order more dangerous than Ebola.

No Ebola is worse than flu as it currently exists, but possibly you are referring to something like the Spanish flu of 1918 that went airborne. Ebola btw also has been transmitted by airborne transmission between Rhesus monkeys. Ebola kills 70% of nearly everybody that comes in contact with it, while flu as currently in existence kills lots of old people and children. Further, note the Spanish nurse, the Dallas deceased medical technician, and the two nurses in Dallas who are infected all wore rabbit suits but still caught the virus. Apparently--says the discoverer of Ebola, a Belgian doctor--taking off your goggles incorrectly, and rubbing your eye, can infect you with Ebola. It's that potent.

I am predicting an outbreak of Ebola next year that will cause a worldwide recession--you read it here first. What that does to bitcoin is anybody's guess.

TonyT

Well, the evidence of airborne transmission in pigs and monkeys is very weak. There is some evidence of droplet transmission, but ebola is considered kids stuff compared with Flu. That could change if a strain evolves in the human population it's infecting right now. But it is extremely unlikely to evolve the ability to become airborne. The fear is more about evolving the ability to infect others while the patient is asymptomatic. That would greatly complicate things.
Right now it is thought that most health care providers who become infected contract the disease during the "doffing" (undressing) process. If Ebola were an airborne disease those protective cloths would do nothing and the whole hospital would be raging with viri.

Not being in your field, when you say "droplet transmission" are you referring to airborne micro droplets? I know of these from chemical engineering and combustion technology.