http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/04/10/marburg-virus-hitting-angola-worse-than-ebola-prensa-latina/ General interest observations and true web-log. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:57:53 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/04/10/marburg-virus-hitting-angola-worse-than-ebola-prensa-latina/comment-page-1/#comment-27766 roborob Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:21:30 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1788#comment-27766 For those who are unfamiliar with Marburg, I recommend the frightening nonfiction book "Hot Zone" by Richard Preston. For those who want a quicker intro to the story, read this review of the book: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues95/jun95/book_0695.html#zone This book not only graphically elucidates the lethal effects of the virus, but also the scary story of the kind of inept procedures and policies that threaten --even today-- to unleash a devastating epidemic right here in the USA. It is true. Marburg has already been in the USA, a stone's throw from our nation's capitol and could have easily escaped. This book exposes some of the many reasons we do not want government scientists playing with deadly bugs like anthrax and ebola. For those who are unfamiliar with Marburg, I recommend the frightening nonfiction book “Hot Zone” by Richard Preston. For those who want a quicker intro to the story, read this review of the book:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues95/jun95/book_0695.html#zone
This book not only graphically elucidates the lethal effects of the virus, but also the scary story of the kind of inept procedures and policies that threaten –even today– to unleash a devastating epidemic right here in the USA. It is true. Marburg has already been in the USA, a stone’s throw from our nation’s capitol and could have easily escaped. This book exposes some of the many reasons we do not want government scientists playing with deadly bugs like anthrax and ebola.

]]> http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/04/10/marburg-virus-hitting-angola-worse-than-ebola-prensa-latina/comment-page-1/#comment-27730 Miguel Lopes Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:53:59 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1788#comment-27730 I'm getting concerned about this. You may remember Angola was a former colony of Portugal until 1974, and we still have a huge community of Angolans living in our country, many of which travel regularly to their native country. As public health is close to non-existant in Angola, and everything is done in such a amateurish way here in Portugal, I hope things don't really get out of control.... Marburg, like Ebola has the potential to be a huge nightmare in densely populated areas such as european cities... It hasn't been so far because most people that get it die before anybody gets to where they are. I’m getting concerned about this. You may remember Angola was a former colony of Portugal until 1974, and we still have a huge community of Angolans living in our country, many of which travel regularly to their native country. As public health is close to non-existant in Angola, and everything is done in such a amateurish way here in Portugal, I hope things don’t really get out of control…. Marburg, like Ebola has the potential to be a huge nightmare in densely populated areas such as european cities… It hasn’t been so far because most people that get it die before anybody gets to where they are.

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