Does a 70-80% death rate suggest that humans are the normal host of Ebola or not?
83103
We have no statistics to back that up.  I doubt that anyone went into the jungle to count any other species dying from the disease.  The really scary part is that it comes in waves, and dies out on its own.
554564
if you call children dying from hunger&aids normal???women getting raped by soldiers,disease everywhere normal???africa needs help-always did-always will!!!africans must stop having 50 million children,they must also learn to take care of themselves!!!!!
988027
since '800-1100' score is within 1 standard deviation (130) of the mean (930)... and assuming that the population is normally distributed, we can say that\n68.27% of the patients scored 800-1100...\n\n(that is if the 68-95-99.7 rule is universal among normally distributed populations)
229774
It's not a fatal disease, so about normal.
786832
The short answer is "NO" and the reason is because in a social setting such as a family household or within a workplace statistics are not gathered.\nIt is only in settings such as hospitals or nursing homes or in the case of an epidemic that such facts are correlated and stats can be produced.\nHowever, in the years April to April 2005 - 2006 it was stated that there were 200 cases of unsourced infectious diarrhoea within nursing homes for the elderly in England and Wales (Scotland produces it's own stats) and 150 cases within NHS hospitals.\nIn total over 5000 people were affected including both staff and patients/residents.\nHope this helps.
81998
i am not understanding your question.  are you asking if the flu is deadly?  it's deadly to small children and the elderly, and to people with lowered immune systems.
1053989
Sounds like that Liberian Minister of Scratchflopp who needs your bank account number to bring his millions here.\nWe're being killed because stupid politicians allowed, for the first time in recorded history, the existence of a fatal infectious condition to be kept secret.\nWe have no cure for ANY viral disease yet; just a couple vaccines for a few strains. \nWhy stop research? Ignorance isn't bliss, it's death, dummy.
55120
Having a widespread epidemic is a very real possibility, and we've come close, especially with the ebola virus. \n\nBack when it was unknown, an infected man took a plane to Europe to be treated. He could have potentially spread Ebola all around the world, but he didn't.\n\nJust look through history as well - the bubonic plague wiped out a good portion of the population - its effects were devestating, far more than any war fought over the centures.\n\nVirus can spread quickly, can mutate and make them hard to cure, and can kill with speed and indescriminate ruthlessness.\n\nI suppose a nuclear holocaust ala Terminator could be worse, but short of that, a plague unleashed like Ebola would be devestating.
850483
no, its a false figure, its 700,000 dead to date
1034778
that would be a question to address to the Ukrainian department of health or whatever.  no one here will be able to provide that type of statistic to you.  sorry.
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Nobody can know the % for sure.  You only know once they are tested.  What % are being tested?\n\nOne way that countries estimate the % infected is by screening representative bloods eg blood from women who are giving birth in hospital, or people having other procedures or blood tests.\n\nThen, epidemiologists assess the % of positive samples, and estimate the rate in the general population.\n\nOne big difficulty is that each subset of the population has its own set of risk factors.  These can vary, enormously.\n\nI am certain the HIV+ rate is vastly under- setimated in many countries.
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if you are refering to the avian bird flu in the news, only about 100 ppl have died of this in the last 3 years. i think we have more to worry about such as the effects of drugs, alcohol and sexually transmitted dieases than birds killing us.
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yes it is still around, however it is quite rare. what the ebola virus does to you is the virus activates and releases its own genetic material which causes the host to begin to make its own proteins for virus replication. This replication continues until the cell ruptures and bursts. The virus is then spread to neighboring cells, and continues to reproduce. Basically your body begins to waste away internally. \nSymptoms include vomiting, diarrhea,changing of skin color, general body pain, internal and external bleeding, and fever
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Its a killer disease. \nIt depends on it's mercy when it guns down it's unfortunate victims. Stage of the disease rarely matters.\nWe can just pray, not predict.
1005800
Exactly...it's hard to say because people are always dying and new lives are always coming into the world.  I would say just over 6 billion.
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The virus comes from the Filoviridae family, of which Marburg virus is also a member. The true vector, an animal or plant that can carry the virus without experiencing symptoms of infection, is not currently known. The Ebola virus is named after the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), near the first epidemics.\n\nIt is traditional to name viral species (strains, subtypes) after the locations where they were first discovered. Two species were identified in 1976: Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV) and Sudan ebolavirus (SEBOV) with case fatality rates of 83% and 54% respectively. A third species, Reston ebolavirus (REBOV), was discovered in November 1989 in a group of monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) imported from the Philippines to the Hazleton Primate Quarantine Unit in Reston, Virginia (USA).\n\nFurther outbreaks have occurred in Zaire/Democratic Republic of the Congo (1995 and 2003), Gabon (1994, 1995 and 1996), Uganda (2000), Angola (2005) and Sudan again (2004). A new species was identified from a single human case in Côte d'Ivoire in 1994, Ivory Coast ebolavirus (ICEBOV). In 2003, 120 people died in Etoumbi, Republic of Congo, which has been the site of four recent outbreaks, including one in May 2005.\n\nOf the approximate 1,500 identified Ebola cases worldwide, over 80% of the patients have died. Despite considerable effort by the World Health Organization, no animal or arthropod reservoir capable of sustaining the virus between outbreaks has been identified, although a role for fruit or insectivorous bats is often postulated. BBC News reported that researchers writing in the December 1, 2005, issue of Nature had identified evidence of symptomless Ebola infection in three species of fruit bats from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon.\n\n[edit]\nBlack Death?\nTher are a group of Scientists who believe that the English Black Death was in fact a large Epedemic of Ebola. This remains to be confirmed.\n\n[edit]\nZaire ebolavirus\nZaire ebolavirus, is a non-segmented, negative stranded virus and is one of the first-discovered Ebola virus species. It is also the most deadly with up to a 90% mortality rate in some epidemics. There have been more outbreaks of Zaire ebolavirus than any other strain. The first outbreak took place on August 26, 1976 in Yambuku, a town in northern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The first recorded case (not the index case) was a Mabalo Lokela, a 44 year old school teacher just returning from a trip around Northern Zaire, who was examined at a hospital run by Belgian nuns. His high fever was diagnosed as possible malaria, therefore he was given a quinine shot. Lokela returned to the hospital every day. A week later, his symptoms included uncontrolled vomiting, severe diarrhea, headache, dizziness, and trouble breathing. Later, the bleeding began from his nose, mouth, and rectum. Mabalo Lokela died on September 8, 1976, roughly 14 days after the onset of symptoms.\n\nSoon after, more patients arrived with varying but similar symptoms: fever, headache, muscle/joint aches, fatigue, nausea, dizziness etc. which often progressed to bloody diarrhea, severe vomiting, and bleeding from the nose, mouth, and rectum. The initial transmission was believed to be due to reuse of the needle for Lokelas's injection without sterilization (a common practice in many countries). Subsequent transmission was also due to care of the sick patients without barrier nursing and traditional burial preparations, which involves washing and GI tract cleansing.\n\nA similar case of hospital transmission occurred in southern Sudan, after the death of a nightclub owner in Nzara who could afford to go to the fancier hospital located in Maridi. Unfortunately, the nurses there also did not properly sterilize their needles, and the hospital, like the one in Yambuku, became a breeding ground for new Ebola cases (Draper 30–31). Several epidemics of Zaire ebolavirus and Sudan ebolavir
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No, that's why wars happen and massive epidemic viruses. Nature has its way of underpopulating, but if science continues keeping people that should die at their old stages from dying maybe someday we could get overpopulated. Therefore we should move to another planet...hehe