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tricksterloki t1_itv8b64 wrote

Reply to comment by Eliju in Many U.S. labs cannot test for Ebola strain behind Uganda's swelling outbreak by Avulpesvulpes

Anyone that remembers the Ebola outbreak during the Obama administration, is aware of the ongoing increase in outbreaks and other tropical diseases, read The Hot Zone or Clear and Present Danger, or is currently having validation of their previously thought irrational fear.

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coelogyne_pandurata t1_itwdnvs wrote

Read the hot zone in 4th grade in like 1994 and it wrecked me for life

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podkayne3000 t1_itwqvdh wrote

The film "Contagion" is also excellent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_(2011_film)

It got almost everything weirdly right, down to a quack drug that seems like a placeholder for ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine.

The only thing it got wrong is that it shows the CDC performing really well and continuing to enjoy a high level of respect.

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WrathOfTheHydra t1_itxkl5x wrote

I am so absolutely glad I didn't watch this until Covid hit. There hasn't been a movie that dropped my jaw like that in a long time. It's basically alternate-universe Covid. The few things they got wrong were either incredibly forgivable or simply for dramatic effect. What a movie.

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Eliju t1_itvc1n8 wrote

I just looked and didn’t realize there was such a big outbreak at that time. I guess I vaguely remember it now. But it’s been pretty calm since then for the most part.

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tricksterloki t1_itvcotw wrote

How about the outbreak last year started from a nurse that had been infected 5 yrs prior?

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Cacophonous_Silence t1_itw6qrs wrote

Oh we're all so fucked

Only have vaccines for the Zaire ebolavirus and probably ⅓ the US wouldn't get it anyways

This is a time bomb waiting to go off

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tricksterloki t1_itw823d wrote

Hopefully no one in the US general population needs to get it. As for the other strains, this is where mRNA vaccines will shine. They're quicker to make and development can start as soon as you have the virus's genetic sequence. Also on the upside, we have a president that was involved in the previous Ebola outbreak.

All these tropical and emergent viruses are time bombs. That monkey pox, a virus we were watching, managed to become endemic the world over and that we lucked out noticing that, signals the countdown has started.

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reddrighthand t1_itw2ilg wrote

Fuck. The Hot Zone. It's an entire book of clickbait.

Edit to double down, fuck that book and its exaggerations: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/11/11/362379449/how-the-hot-zone-got-it-wrong-and-other-tales-of-ebolas-history

More:

https://www.mic.com/articles/95640/everything-you-know-about-ebola-is-wrong

https://gizmodo.com/how-the-hot-zone-created-the-worst-myths-about-ebola-1649384576

The man exaggerated the symptoms. He misled people about airborne spread. He described it moving "decisively.,"

Fuck that book.

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tricksterloki t1_itw38c6 wrote

Given when it was written Ebola wasn't known to the general public (1995) and it has good information, it's good for what it is. It's also proven relevant, because of current events. For a lay person, The Hot Zone is fine.

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