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[VigilVirus]

They die of AIDS and that's final. Dude, you argument has no point. The most a person can live after getting AIDS is 5-10 years and that is very rare.

[Cyborg]

Water is the most deadly substance in the world if you look at it this way: ;D

Every human that has died, has drunk water recently before he died.

(not counting babies that dies before they drink anything)

Every human that has got any sort of disease has been drinking water.

Every human that injure himself has drunk water often just minutes before the injury.

Hehe, I know this sounds pretty stupid but I read it on some humor site.

[Terror]

still, aids is the most lethal, there is no cure yet....

[Cyborg]

I agree. Aids is a very bad disease >:(.

[Anathema]

But it is not necessarily lethal, don't you get it? With proper medicine, you could live for decades on because the effects are slowed down as hell.

The reason it still claims so many lives is that in Africa, one on four (!) people has aids, and most governments can't aford to buy enough medical supplies for everyone.

The most lethal disease would be the ebola strains.

[Terror]

But it is not necessarily lethal, don't you get it? With proper medicine, you could live for decades on because the effects are slowed down as hell.

The reason it still claims so many lives is that in Africa, one on four (!) people has aids, and most governments can't aford to buy enough medical supplies for everyone.

The most lethal disease would be the ebola strains.

no, ebola kills quickly, but you do not have to die from it. Aids will kill you, wether it is now, or within 15 years, you will die from it.... so it's 100% lethal

I don't think that it can slow it down for several decades, but yes it will increase your time to live, which is good. However i would be more pleased to see a cure

[Cyborg]

As long as you don't catch as much as a cold, you can live quite long with aids. Aids disables your immune system so you can die of a simple cold.

There are medical treatment for ebola, though you gotta treat it fast. You start looking pretty bad soon if you got ebola :(

[Anathema]

But aids isn't as contagious as ebola is. If someone in my neighbourhood gets aids, no big deal (for the neighbourhood, that is). But if someone in the neighbourhood gets ebola, then there's reason to worry :O

[Cyborg]

I would worry quite alot if my neighbour got ebola because ebola is nearly extinct(a few underdeveloped countries still has problems with it).

He would be quarantined though.

[Terror]

yes, that's all true. However i think that ebola comes with bad hygiene (earthnuker, you would understand that word :) ) like the plague, aids come from sex or blood contact. Ebola kills faster and is way more contagious, aids however is not curable... yet

[Anathema]

Yeah, ebola is nearly extinct, because the virus does its job too well. Its victims die so quickly that they don't have much time to infect others.

[Cyborg]

it takes about 3 days to die of ebola.

If an african village got ebola, you could just kiss it goodbye because the disease is highly contigius.

Why it is nealry distinct is because it has been done much to get rid of it and it has worked.

[Terror]

same for the plague... once it decimated almost half of the europian population, after that it became less and less, until it didn't show up at all anymore. People started to find out that it came from bad hygiene

[VigilVirus]

Ebola is not that contagious. It is mostly spread by direct contact with bodily fluids of a sick person or very close contact. It does not travel through the air for a long time, dying almost immediatly after it exits the body.

[Cyborg]

Earthnuker is right that ebola has partly stopped before it has killed the infected unit so fast that he or she hasn't got the chance to visit other towns. However, the town that has been infected used to turn into a pile of burning corpses.

[VigilVirus]

Btw, no one has found the what the original host of Ebola is. The recurrances are a mystery, because the person to first get it usually dies before telling how he/she got it. It is not the monkeys for they also die from it.

[Terror]

Ebola is not that contagious. It is mostly spread by direct contact with bodily fluids of a sick person or very close contact. It does not travel through the air for a long time, dying almost immediatly after it exits the body.

is it a virus? cuz in that case you would be correct.... even though a virus can still be highly contagious, when in the right circumstances (like a crowded village)

[Cyborg]

If it's a virus, then they can't use medicines against it, can they?

How come they happen to have medicines? (or do they?)

[VigilVirus]

Yes, Ebola is an RNA virus of the family Filoviridae. It has no cure or vaccination.

[Cyborg]

Then I was wrong when i thought there were a cure :(.

Nice that it's nearly extinct, though

[VigilVirus]

Ebola is not extinct. It has always been a "quiet" virus appearing and dissappearing. But the biggest threat of course, is that it, like all viruses especially RNA will mutate and take up an airborne strain. If that happens, the epidemic will spread very fast and very far, turning into a global pandemic.

[Cyborg]

Then why not nuke all of africa (and all the other places it exist) to get rid of it?

J/k

[Terror]

how is that possible? as far as i learned about virusses, virusses can only live outside the body for a very short time, which would be only a few yards/meters. Virusses had the property that they had to spread through physical contact

[Major_Gilbear]

Depends on the Virus.

Some have a tough protein coating, and can lie dormant for a *very* long time before infecting a host, even outside the body.

Viruses can usually be killed with bleach, and a lot are damaged irreprably by exposure to UV light.

Also I believe that some viruses have a 'cure' through the use of phages. Most of the research was done in the Soviet Union, and published in non-english languges, and as such were utterly ignored by the West. However, many patients were treated successfully.

And not all viruses need to be spread through direct contact.

[VigilVirus]

how is that possible? as far as i learned about virusses, virusses can only live outside the body for a very short time, which would be only a few yards/meters. Virusses had the property that they had to spread through physical contact

Lol, what about Influenza? Common cold? Smallpox? All these viruses, especially Smallpox can be spread through the air with the help of human breath and the currents of the wind.