• Ebola - That shit you do NOT want to catch.
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I'm writing this entire thread by hand, none of it is copy-pasta, you can check anywhere you want on the internet; I'm reading a book for school about Ebola, and I find it.. Interesting. This is all what the book has told me. [b]Thread Music:[/b] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5gL4wK6Qc0[/media] Ebola. The most deadly strain was discovered in Zaire, Africa. It is now known as Ebola Zaire, or Zaire Ebolavirus. Ebola is named after the Ebola River, which is the headstream of the Mongala River, which is a tributary to the Congo River. The first recorded case of Ebola was in 1979 in an African schoolteacher. If you catch this shit, you are literally [I]FUCKED.[/I] [img]http://wvlc.uwaterloo.ca/biology475/Emerging_Diseases/Virus_hemorrhagic/ebola.jpg[/img] Enough stuff you don't care about, you're probably here to read about why Ebola is so deadly. Ebola symptoms generally start 6-10 days after exposure, with a headache "behind the eyeballs", and then a lower backache. A high fever starts. From then on, other symptoms take place. Your blood being to coagulate, forming clots everywhere in your body, like some fucked up entire-body-stroke. As a result, if you get a cut or are somehow bleeding, it doesn't clot, so it doesn't stop bleeding. Just like a hemophiliac. During the early discovery of Ebola, patients could not receive hypodermic syringes, because the second the needle went in, blood began seeping out of the puncture around the needle. As a result of the clotting, blood clusterfucks around your spleen, making it into a huge hard mass of coagulated blood the size of a baseball. As if entire-body-blood-clotting wasn't enough to do with your blood, massive hemorrhaging begins. Your intestines and skull fill with blood. You bleed out of every single orifice in your body. That's your nose (hemophiliac (nonstop) nosebleeds are common), ears, eyes, mouth, anus, nipples, and penis/vagina. Your testicles swell to enormous sizes and turn black and blue. You bleed under your skin, resulting in small red spots at first, and then they grow into gigantic bruises that merge, turning your entire face into one giant, red, bruise. Extreme vomiting is affected by the hemorrhaging. You vomit, but your vomit is almost completely blood. The [i]Vomito Negro[/i] begins, or, the [I]Black Vomit[/I]. It's called the Black Vomit because it's pure red with black spots. You also shit out huge amounts of blood. Your organs literally liquefy. Your liver swells into a giant yellow cracked mess, and then collapses and turns to fluid. You can actually vomit out our esophagus lining, and you can swallow/puke out the skin on your tongue. You can also shit out your intestinal lining. Your brain decomposes early on while you're still alive, so the scary thing is; [I]You can't feel a fucking thing this entire time.[/I] The virus eats the connective tissue between your organs; including the tissue holding your face. Your face droops, and just hangs, emotionless, barely able to speak, unable to make facial expressions (the virus usually completely destroys that part of the brain). Because of your brain being eaten alive, there is severe brain damage. Dementia and psychosis are common. Some patients even stripped themselves of their clothes and ran out of hospitals, not knowing what happened to them. When you've lost too much blood and you can no longer survive, you "crash". Pretty much, you go unconscious, and you bleed out. It is told that once a victim crashes, there is a sound that sounds like you're ripping a bedsheets in two. That's the sound of blood shootingg out of your ass. Even if you somehow survive the [B][I]90% DEATH RATE[/I][/B] of Ebola Zaire, you will probably never completely heal. Your organs are liquefied and no longer connected, your brain is partially eaten away. There is no cure or vaccine to Ebola. Once you catch it, you're pretty much doomed. There IS one good about Ebola, though. It's not very easy to catch. It only survives in bodily fluids. Vomit, blood, urine, etc..
i am scare [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Snipe." - ventilated))[/highlight]
yeah dude I read The Hot Zone last year and now I'm fuckin scared.
[QUOTE=RusMar;17140328]yeah dude I read The Hot Zone last year and now I'm fuckin scared.[/QUOTE] That's a great book, even if some parts are exaggerated.
[QUOTE=RusMar;17140328]yeah dude I read The Hot Zone last year and now I'm fuckin scared.[/QUOTE] That's the shitty book I'm reading. It's making me paranoid :tinfoil:
Didn't read the Hot Zone, but I've known for a while that ebola isn't the best disease to catch.
And we needed another thread on this why ?
[QUOTE=wuzzimu;17140358]That's a great book, even if some parts are exaggerated.[/QUOTE] Also, Ebola Reston is airborne, but only affects monekys so far. Edit: Replied instead of edited, my bad.
[QUOTE=Zarfa;17140376]And we needed another thread on this why ?[/QUOTE] Because I think Ebola is more interesting than [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=805883[/url]
Ny cat had this :smug:
DAMN VIRUSES AND THEIR MUTATIONs COME ON IF IT WASN'T for YOUR MUTATIONS WE WOULD HAVE PROPER VACCINESSSS
Doesn't Ebola near the end basically turn you into a human blood sac, because its eaten everything else.
My mom worked in the building right next to the building with the outbreak in reston at the same time
The second I get this shit, fucking cremate me.
Yeah, Ebola is nasty.
Ebola is also the strain of virus responsible for the events of 28 Days/Weeks/Months later.
Jesus, am I the only one who learned about this in 9th grade Biology? Oh wait that's right no other Facepunchers are in high school yet, my mistake.
[IMG] http://www.h2orobots.org/images/Outbreak_movie.JPG[/IMG] Amirite or amirite?
[QUOTE=gokulol;17140634]Jesus, am I the only one who learned about this in 9th grade Biology? Oh wait that's right no other Facepunchers are in high school yet, my mistake.[/QUOTE] look everybody, it's the grown up kid of facepunch hes so cool
[QUOTE=gokulol;17140634]Jesus, am I the only one who learned about this in 9th grade Biology? Oh wait that's right no other Facepunchers are in high school yet, my mistake.[/QUOTE] How old are you? -.- Oh, And have a Box.
You don't learn about Ebola in 9th grade science? More like grade 7-8 son. Grade 9 was about cooler shit like asexual reproduction and n_ggers. But you might not live in BC
[QUOTE=gokulol;17140634]Jesus, am I the only one who learned about this in 9th grade Biology? Oh wait that's right no other Facepunchers are in high school yet, my mistake.[/QUOTE] Wow, you're so coool.
There is one thing that more than anything else scares me. One thing the scares me every time I think about it, every time I talk about it. And to give you an example of what that is, I would like to tell you the story of William Welch. William Welch he is a man who in the medical world, nearly have mythological status. He’s called the father of the American medical science field. He’s a man known for his sky-high intelligence, his high moral character. And they said Welch was an example of a completely unshakeable calmness. William Welch was, the man that did not know of angst. That’s how it was, until August 23th 1918, because on that exact date, William Welch becomes as scared as a human can get. I will you the story and there’ll be a good group of you who’s gonna wonder why they haven’t heard about this before, I can only say that everything I write true, this has happened, the ones that experienced this catastrophe they just don’t want to remember it. It has been pushed into the part of history that has been left behind but it has happened and it all starts a cold winter morning, it all starts in USA in the state Kansas and it starts when there’s knocked on the door of the doctor of Loren Miner. Outside the door stands a young man, he’s sick and his sickness it spreads. In a matter of few days, many people in Kansas are sick. The sickness is not dangerous, it’s gone by the end of the week, no one dies and this local epidemic is completely gone in about 3 weeks. It would seem that everything turned back to normal. But that was not all correct. That sickness, that first time shows its face in Kansas it retreats but it doesn’t disappear, no it hides away and grows even more evil, it mutates, it finds a new deadly form and six months later it returns, and this time it shows its real face, and when that happens, it hits as a nuke down in the modern medical world, and the one who’s hit with the largest force is exactly, William Welch. The day it happened, August 23th 1918, begins like every other day. But early in the afternoon, William gets a call, and the message is, “There’s problems in Ford Denton, go find out what's going on”. And Ford Denton is a military camp, this is the time where USA is on their way into WW1, so Ford Denton is filled to the limit with young people and these people are getting sick, and this time it’s serious. They’re getting really sick. They’re dying. Hell is loose in Ford Denton. William Welch, that late afternoon where he walks into the treatment room, he literally steps into Hell’s living room. Everything’s cast into chaos and panic. There’s sick people everywhere, corpses are spread everywhere as well. And the doctors quickly gets Welch into the surgery room, and the sight that meets him there is the sight he never forgets. The surgery room is a small room, and in every corner are there literally hills of blue-black corpses, with blood and goo oozing from the nose and the mouth, in the middle of the room is a surgery table with a corpse on it. By the table stands a horrified reserve doctor, she takes from the corpse, a pair of blood soaked, ruined lungs, so ruined even a doctor couldn’t tell the difference between that and a traffic accident. This is where Welch for the first time experiences what it means to get hit by all the bad feelings and emotions you can imagine. He’s so horrified he’s nailed to the place, he can’t speak or think rationally for minutes, and the first words that he speaks when he regains his senses that forever will be remembered in the history of medicine. “This is a new sickness, this is the new Black Death, and this is the beginning of the most horrifying catastrophe we can imagine.” These words are not forgotten but they’re not entirely true either. It wasn’t a new sickness, it wasn’t the new Black Death, but it was a catastrophe what so ever. Because the sickness spreads from Ford Denton to rest of the world and in few weeks, every continent is included in this epidemic. Everywhere on earth, people are getting sick and it’s going, very, very fast. You could be healthy in the morning, dead later the same day. It starts with coughing, then cramps, then there comes a headache like no other, and are you amongst the unlucky, then this is where the blue-like colouring of the body begins. They say that are your feet blue, then there’s no way around it, death is imminent. But it’s a horrible death, they say you die as if you drowned in your own dissolved lungs. This creates chaos and panic. No one knows what’s going on, no one knows when it’s going to stop, but it takes three months, and within that time, around 100 million people dies. Never before have so many people died in so few months. This is more dead people than WW1, WW2, the Vietnam War and the Korea war added together. This was without a doubt, the largest catastrophe in history. No one that lived in the beginning of the last century will never forget the Spanish Flu. And that what it was. And that’s why I’m so scared every time, because the Spanish flu was no more than a very evil flu. A flu that had mutated and found that exact deadly form that could kill millions of people in three months. And they’re still out there and mutating and it’s only a matter of time before it’s going to happen again in a larger or smaller scale. And yes that was a sister-virus to Ebola.
So fucking gross, if I ever caught that I'd shoot myself in the head.
[QUOTE=Da Big Man;17140630]Ebola is also the strain of virus responsible for the events of 28 Days/Weeks/Months later.[/QUOTE] No. The RAGE virus is fictional. It was just [B]inspired[/B] by Ebola, but moreso by rabies.
Pick of subject after death, now!
[QUOTE=Red Heavy;17140286] [I]You can't feel a fucking thing this entire time.[/I][/QUOTE] You know by this point of the illness that isn't all that scary
[QUOTE=Red Heavy;17140286]There IS one good about Ebola, though. It's not very easy to catch. It only survives in bodily fluids. Vomit, blood, urine, etc..[/QUOTE] Uh...it's really infectious
Sad.
I now understand president of Madagascar.
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