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The Washington Post is reporting that the Center for Disease Control's director is warning that the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola outbreak may not be containable. The ongoing conflicts in the region might ensure that the disease becomes entrenched instead of coming under control. If it becomes endemic to the province then it will become impossible to trace contacts, stop transmission chains, and contain the outbreak. Apparently 60% to 80% of the newly-confirmed cases have no known epidemiological link to prior cases, indicating loss of control and fewer options for prevention or treatment. High level political attention is becoming needed at this point for there to be a solution.
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CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by edIII on Sunday November 11 2018, @12:39AM (3 children)
Not supporting the troll, but dropping the nuke could make it extremely difficult for the virus to propagate. It doesn't do well outside of the human body, especially in firestorm conditions.
Quite a number of victims will be outright vaporized, which includes the virus. The overall effect is a bit more extreme than wiping down surfaces with alcohol. At the outer edges of the blast zone however, you will have an increasing number of survivors, in varying degrees of distress, and this will include a lot of dead bodies.
The only real valid question is how does the nuke affect the ability of the virus to spread? It's a real shit question to have to answer, but in all seriousness, if it looks like it is escaping containment and you start having cases in major cities worldwide, it's a question we may want answered. Especially if the DNC proves that it can barely handle being a functional government, much less one capable of dealing with a major threat like Ebola.
Personally, if we get to the point where it is easier and safer to wipe out infected populations by the city, then nukes are a bad idea anyway. Neutron bombs and conventional MOABS might be better. Still, nothing that doesn't kill the human beings and Ebola instantly, risks far worse spreading through dead bodies and carrion animals that will be eating them.
They may not be trolling, and that's the only idea that they have for defeating a virus that has been pumped up by Hollywood as the virus to make all of our post apocalyptic fears come true.
Seriously, if I saw CCTV cameras in Norway showing Aliens (the ones from the movie Aliens), wreaking havoc, those cute blonds be damned. Drop the nuke :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday November 11 2018, @11:12AM
It also depends on the form of the nuke. Use a sloika (layer cake) design with Lithium-6 deuteride and sodium so you're producing Na-24 which has a short half-life while producing a ton of gammas. So you light one of those off and a few days later you can walk in and the area will be sterilised, no trace of ebola left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 11 2018, @01:11PM
Ebola is a major hazard, but not necessarily a credible risk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard#Risk [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @11:47AM
It wants you to imagine a mirror world where McCain won instead of Obama, and the DNC was in control of congress instead of the RNC.
Or y'know, Clinton won, but otherwise the same as the past 2 years of Trump.
Hint for you: It will be just as fucking retarded as the tantrums thrown because 'Black Obama' was in charge, and it will have little to no effect on the continuing mismanagement of the Not So United States of America.
Really, every day that passes, I hope just a little more for it all to burn right down. God must agree with me after all the fires.