OUT: Covid-19, IN: E-Boliva

[Viper 12112]

https://gizmodo.com/an-emerging-ebola-like-virus-in-bolivia-can-spread-betw-1845697716

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Scientists are urging caution over a mysterious, Ebola-like viral disease that appears to have spread from person to person during a small outbreak in Bolivia last year. The disease, caused by the Chapare virus, killed three people and is thought to have sickened at least five during the outbreak, including three healthcare workers who came into contact with patients. Its symptoms include internal bleeding, fever, and widespread organ damage.

The virus is named after the location where the first known outbreak of the disease occurred in late 2003, near the Chapare River in Bolivia. Though several people were suspected of having the disease in 2003 and 2004, detailed information and blood samples were only collected from a single patient at the time: a 22-year-old tailor and farmer living in the rural village of Samuzabeti.

The man initially developed headache and fever, which progressed to joint aches, vomiting, and internal bleeding, also called hemorrhaging. This collection of symptoms is known as hemorrhagic fever and is a familiar, often fatal outcome of other very dangerous but usually rare viral diseases like Ebola. Within two weeks, the man died.

Doctors were able to study his blood and isolate a virus never before documented, while ruling out other potential illnesses common to the area like dengue. The mystery virus was discovered to be a member of the arenavirus family, a group of viruses that commonly infect rodents and sometimes humans. Its relatives include the more well-known Lassa virus and other viruses first found in South America, such as Machupo virus in Bolivia and Junin virus in Argentina. Many of these viruses can cause hemorrhagic fever in people.

 

[InkaUtexas 26119]

So options for 2020 are die on a vent or from bleeding out your ass? 

[Hmbre97 6331]

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[futureman 22548]

10 minutes ago, Hmbre97 said:

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exactly.  covid is child’s play.  hemorrhagic fever is what is going to correct the world’s problem of overpopulation. 

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[Brisketexan 105366]

So, sure.....why the fuck not.

We're this fucking close to a zombie apocalypse being a real thing, so why the fuck not.

[Anastasis 23484]

[Mikey4 2476]

M-O-O-N, that spells "we're all fucked."

[Bevo 13601]

Nice

[Deej 76933]

5 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

So options for 2020 are die on a vent or from bleeding out your ass? 

#NowThis picks option 2.

[workswithseed 2111]

I'd rather have lung aids than ass aids.

[Newdoc 3453]

These type of outbreaks are usually over in two weeks.

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2021

[atomheartbevo 89808]

8 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

So options for 2020 are die on a vent or from bleeding out your ass? 

[XYZ 2154]

13 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Dude, you already made that joke.

[Continental Op 3934]

I think I swung by the COVID thread early on and laughed at people for being alarmed and brought up the great ebola outbreak from a few years back so  I will go ahead and not do that here.  

[futureman 22548]

3 hours ago, Newdoc said:

These type of outbreaks are usually over in two weeks.

yes, usually.  until they’re not.  if the right hemorrhagic fever were to spread in the way that covid has overtaken the globe hundreds of millions, if not billions of people would die. 

[InkaUtexas 26119]

There are reasons to be concerned about the news, however. Three of the five confirmed patients from the 2019 outbreak were health care workers, according to a CDC statement; a "young medical resident," an ambulance medic and a gastroenterologist all contracted Chapare after contact with bodily fluids from infected patients. Two of them died.

https://www.livescience.com/chapare-virus-human-transmission.htm

So South American Ebola? Great. Wonder if it can get into cocaine...  

[ztejas 43538]

3 hours ago, workswithseed said:

ass aids.

I think that's just called aids

[Newdoc 3453]

5 hours ago, futureman said:

yes, usually.  until they’re not.

That was a joke from the Covid thread. Rapidly fatal illnesses like Ebola tend to burn themselves out because they killl the host too fast.

[Dnaguy 12081]

32 minutes ago, Newdoc said:

That was a joke from the Covid thread. Rapidly fatal illnesses like Ebola tend to burn themselves out because they killl the host too fast.

As long as everyone who gets it dies quick, then we’re all saved!

[South Austin 52617]

But they won’t cancel the Houston Rodeo, will they?