End it with ebola

My one FB buddy posted this article yesterday regarding the most recent outbreak of the ebola virus.  Now pretty much everyone has heard of ebola, it’s been around for a long time.  It’s a very deadly virus that normally kills the majority of people that contract it.  Like many bad things in the world, it appears to have started in Africa.  Despite it’s lethality, ebola has not become a worldwide epidemic because to this point it has been determined that the only way it can be passed along is through direct contact with bodily fluids.  Well this article claims this latest outbreak in West Africa is different.

The virus is spreading at an alarming rate, throughout four countries thus far.  The speed that it is spreading has lead to speculation that this latest strain is actually able to spread without direct physical contact.  This is a potentially catastrophic mutation if it is indeed true.  The article claims the media is misinforming the public about the outbreak, perhaps intentionally, to head off the guaranteed worldwide panic that would ensue.

I have no idea how legitimate these claims are but I did see the video of the ebola infected person being taken into the Atlanta CDC in a full hazard suit.  If the virus was not potentially airborne, you would not think a haz-mat suit would be required.

Make no mistake, the end of the world as we know it is indeed coming in some manner and a global pandemic is tailor made for it.  The shrinking of the planet via air travel where people can hop scotch across the globe  in half a day into major population areas makes worldwide population decimation by an extremely deadly virus more of a probability instead of a remote possibility.  I suggest you don’t Google pictures of people with ebola.

Have a nice day.