i think you could of wrote more in that post

I agree, talk about sensationalism.

Um, i think you two are unaware of just how much Wonko hates Ebola. Wonko and Ebola are like Buffy and vampires, only with fewer swooshy coats, and hot blond chicks.

And less actually fighting Ebola. It's like if Buffy were to sit around worrying about vampires and reading about them on the internet and gnashing her teeth.

Which would not make for an interesting show, by the way. Maybe if Wonko were a hot blonde female...

You can't kill Ebola with stakes or sunlight. If it was that easy, I'd be out kicking Ebola's ass every day.

Well, sunlight would probably do it. Many virii have very little tolerance for the sun's direct radiation. So, if you stuck a sample of ebola out in the sunlight for a while (not just a few seconds, like on Buffy), it would probably die. Plus, most virii don't do well outside of a human host, sunlight or no.

Ebola infection requires direct fluid contact. As the disease doesn't usually include sneezing and coughing, this is not that hard to avoid. Just don't shake hands with people who are bleeding from their eyeballs :) I would be very surprised if an Ebola outbreak in the first world were not contained very quickly. The disease is not terribly subtle, there is a test for it, and first world containment procedures have been successful with SARS, which was harder given the lack of a test.

It is a rather spectacular disease. I can think of a few less pleasent ways to go, but not many.

But can Ebola fly?





and yes, you answered my question already. But it HAD TO BE SAID!

Okay, actually, you're right. Killing Ebola would be as easy as getting it out of a living host for a matter of minutes. Still, doing that while keeping it out of you is the hard part.

It can fly, actually. In two senses of the word. Ebola Reston, the newest observed strain of Ebola, is airborne. Luckily for us, the same mutation that enabled the virus to spread via the air also resulted in it being harmless to humans. And Thank God, because otherwise, there'd have been a huge outbreak in Washington, D.C.

In addition, Ebola Zaire, the oldest and most deadly form of Ebola, is thought by some to be carried by birds or bats. This is only speculation, though, based on the fact that Ebola Zaire disappeared for over a decade and then reappeared hundreds of miles away in a form almost completely identical to the originally-observed strain.

So yes, Ebola can fly. :P

*Feww!*

Well don't I feel amazingly lucky, being only an hour away from DC and all... *shiver*

I believe I'm in your camp on the Ebola thing Wonko. Diseases I think are probably my greatest fear.

when is a new poseidon coming out

For those not familiar with the series, this is a reference to Angel 1.1, wherein the question, "Can you fly?" and the destructive nature of sunlight (to vampires) are tightly entwined.

And I don't think it had to be said, rather, I think you had to say it. You have your fangirlness to maintain, after all :)

I don't have to MAINTAIN, baby! I've got a Lifetime Founding Member Pass to Fangirldom!

http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/11/18/ebola.reut/index.html