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tricksterloki t1_itvcotw wrote

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

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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