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del_vin
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| 04 Nov 2016 02:12 AM |
"What is EDV?"
Shorthand cool kid epidemiologist way of saying ebola. Makes it sound less meme-y that way, I guess.
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hambertJR
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| 04 Nov 2016 02:13 AM |
| link to the wikipedia article where you got this |
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| 04 Nov 2016 02:14 AM |
"link to the wikipedia article where you got this"
I honestly wish I just copied these threads. I'd waste a lot less of my life if I did.
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| 04 Nov 2016 02:18 AM |
| I am not into Biology, more of a Physics/Rocketry/Maths person. |
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| 04 Nov 2016 02:22 AM |
"I am not into Biology, more of a Physics/Rocketry/Maths person."
I don't think "biology" really does epidemiology justice. While epidemiology does have elements of biology in the form of microbiology and pathology, it's much deeper than that. Epidemiology itself is sort of an art form, and it merges the study of microbiology and pathology with the skills of a crime detective. The disease itself isn't always at the core of epidemiology. Epidemiology is also concerned with the spread, location, and even origin of the disease. There are times when epidemiology strays from the path of biology entirely, and field epidemiologists start questioning witnesses of a disease like they're trying to solve a murder mystery. Epidemiology feels more like biology and forensics mashed into one beautiful, yet absolutely terrifying masterpiece.
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| 04 Nov 2016 02:44 AM |
She didn't even really have to leave Zaire to cause a global, now that I think of it. Just getting treatment in one of the other major hospitals would've spread the disease in a much wider area, which would've made it way harder to contain.
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| 04 Nov 2016 02:46 AM |
"to cause a global"
GLOBAL DISASTER* I'M TIRED, SHH.
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| 04 Nov 2016 02:48 AM |
| how do you explain the "ebola zombie" guy or whatever the hell that farce was |
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Muunswirl
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| 04 Nov 2016 02:50 AM |
this is why i love history the what ifs
(ノ◕ヮ↼)ノ*:・゚~✧ |
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kireida
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| 04 Nov 2016 03:02 AM |
"how do you explain the "ebola zombie" guy or whatever the hell that farce was"
You don't. Ebola doesn't, never has, and probably never will reanimate the dead. Marburg and Ebola do cause rabies-like symptoms due to the deterioration of the brain (which is why Marburg was initially referred to as stretched rabies), but that's it. It was just one big factually baseless hoax.
"this is why i love history the what ifs"
Epidemiology history is best history.
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| 04 Nov 2016 03:04 AM |
| How long did it take you to make this thread? |
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| 04 Nov 2016 03:06 AM |
thought so. nothing can reanimate the dead. unless you're a 1960s horror. |
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| 04 Nov 2016 03:06 AM |
"How long did it take you to make this thread?"
This one didn't take very long, I was sort of just ranting based on memory. I was only limited by my typing speed, pretty much.
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| 04 Nov 2016 03:26 AM |
"thought so. nothing can reanimate the dead. unless you're a 1960s horror."
The sad thing is, some people actually believed it.
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| 04 Nov 2016 05:38 AM |
A possibly slightly shameful bump.
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Coronatus
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| 04 Nov 2016 05:59 AM |
"Nice copypasta"
I mean, you can run it through a plagiarism checker if you'd like. I've done it myself just so people wouldn't make these kinds of claims anymore, and there hasn't even been so much as a false flag. All typed by me based on a lifetime of undying love for epidemiology, man.
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| 04 Nov 2016 06:13 AM |
DapperNarwhal: making copypastas for the community of OT to use since, um,
when did you join OT? |
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| 04 Nov 2016 06:15 AM |
| I wish she did,cause look at what's happening with Europe.Syrian violent migrants are far worse than a disease. |
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| 04 Nov 2016 01:37 PM |
"when did you join OT?"
Uhhh, I can't say I'm entirely sure.
"I wish she did,cause look at what's happening with Europe.Syrian violent migrants are far worse than a disease."
Europe wouldn't be the only country affected. Had the Zaire ebolavirus reached Europe, its probability of going global would have shot up. It was possible to keep Kinshasa and the Bumba Zone mostly on lockdown, but the issue becomes much harder to contain once multiple cities are infected, and it's even HARDER when multiple countries are compromised. It would be a major population thinner, to say the least.
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