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NYC_SKP

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15. First, not everybody on DU is an expert. Second, stranger things have happened.

Reply to Earth_First (Reply #14)

Sat Sep 20, 2014, 12:07 AM

Sep 2014

I think your reply is a good way to address the question, but I wouldn't blame a person for wondering.

Think of our own country's and others' history with developing biological agents.

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Ebola Worst-Case Scenario Has More Than 500,000 Cases [View all] B2G Sep 2014 OP

By the end of January. B2G Sep 2014 #1

That's as many people as normally die in three or four days jberryhill Sep 2014 #3

You can't possibly be serious B2G Sep 2014 #4

About how many people die every day? Does that sound like a joke to you? jberryhill Sep 2014 #6

What do you think will happen B2G Sep 2014 #7

I think it is going to follow the normal curve for this sort of thing jberryhill Sep 2014 #9

Ah, now I'm naive jberryhill Sep 2014 #11

I donated to the Red Cross last month B2G Sep 2014 #12

There are 25,000 cases, incidentally jberryhill Mar 2015 #19

Well that was a blast from the past. nt B2G Mar 2015 #20

We'll be doing it again this year jberryhill Jan 2020 #21

It is 500,000 chances for the virus to mutate. Mojorabbit Sep 2014 #16

This is going to lead to a world wide round up and extermination of a people 951-Riverside Sep 2014 #2

After calling it out-of-control Demeter Sep 2014 #5

what is the current O/U from bookmakers? quadrature Sep 2014 #8

This IS a report from bookmakers jberryhill Sep 2014 #10

Who's responsible for this deadly disease? jellen Sep 2014 #13

Seriously with this? Earth_First Sep 2014 #14

First, not everybody on DU is an expert. Second, stranger things have happened. NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #15

This kind of thinking is why villagers attack aid workers jberryhill Sep 2014 #17

Update: New epidemic model says Ebola in Liberia 'could end by June' jberryhill Jan 2015 #18