lawstudent
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To me the scary part is that this virus can be so hard to contain. It seemingly disappeared for years only to resurface almost 2 decades (in 1995) after the first outbreak in 1976. Then the next outbreaks were in 2007 and then 2012.
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Aren't most viruses like that, though? That's the nature of disease. The same diseases that have been around forever periodically pop up in new mutations and ravage populations. It's always a waiting game. Viruses are living things that operate under the survival of the fittest principle, and constantly are looking for new ways to pop up. Viruses jumping from animals to humans has been a pretty consistent thing, and isn't unique to ebola. And humans survive by becoming immune to a lot of them over time through survival of the fittest as well. But when you look at what happened to the Native American population with smallpox, you can see that in a global world, old demons can always pop up. I've always expected a big outbreak in my lifetime, but I don't think this is it. Unfortunately it just is something every generation deals with to some extent.