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Anyone curious why he rushed over here after being exposed? Um....just a guess.....but it could be free medical care.

Feel Burger found a cheap flight to Liberia out of GSO for $327 round trip.

You would think anyone coming from Liberia or other affected areas would be better screened. He knowingly carried an infected pregnant woman home that died and he had to know he was exposed. I think there should be severe consequences for people willing to risk infecting others when they **** well know they are at risk!

Are they giving Mr. Duncan the same experimental drug they gave the 2 Americans several months ago?

What are the local Hospitals doing to prepare for an outbreak? It would be nice to see these plans published in the paper, also what is the Health Department doing?

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...or birds?

http://news.discovery.com/a...140730.htm

Ebola may be present in more animals than previously thought, according to researchers studying the deadly virus, which has already been detected in chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, antelopes, porcupines, rodents, dogs, pigs and humans.

What Is Ebola?

Sanders and his team found that the way Ebola infects human cells is nearly identical -- both structurally and biochemically -- to the way that similar viruses enter bird cells. This suggests that the proteins of the virus had a comparatively recent ancestor.

"It is therefore possible that Ebola was at one time associated with a bird host and may even be so today," Sanders said, adding that the bird must hail from Central Africa. That is where the virus was first detected in 1976 and where outbreaks usually occur.

Even plants and insects could have played some role in the evolution of the virus, as Thomas Monath of the Harvard School of Public Health has proposed. Monath postulated that a nonpathogenic virus in insects and/or plants might have mutated, giving rise to Ebola in bats.

Blaming humans, bats, chimps or birds for the illness does not then take into account its full possible scope within the ecosystem. That, the present unprecedented epidemic, the potential for bioterrorism, and the fact that no vaccine is available for clinical use have scientists around the world paying greater attention to Ebola and to the animals it can infect.

Sanders and his colleagues continue to study birds and their possible role in Ebola's evolution and transmission. They are also attempting to determine what other animals might be added to the already long list of species that the virus and related viruses could impact.

Give it time, give it time.

The Texas patient infected with the Ebola virus vomited outside his apartment as he was transported to the hospital, according to a Reuters report.

"His whole family was screaming. He got outside and he was throwing up all over the place," resident Mesud Osmanovic, 21, said.

The patient, identified as Thomas Eric Duncan by multiple media outlets, is a 42-year-old Liberian national, CNN reported. He's the first to recently develop symptoms of the deadly virus outside Africa.

Dogs or cats licking this stuff up? In Africa, ebola is thought to have originated with non-human mammals, coming into contact with humans. What would happen if the squirrel or mouse population became infected here?

Food for thought.

I think I dated her one time.

but that was years ago.

Just wait until it hits Wilkes County.

Ebola in the US now.