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From what I've read, survival rates for Ebola are 20%-40%, and dependent upon early detection and aggressive treatments.
I've also read there's a lot of fear, disinformation, rumor, and suspicion among the various peoples of the regions now being infected which is helping to fuel it. The epicenter for this outbreak was in Guinea, starting back in February, and then spreading across Guinea's borders to Sierra Leone and Liberia.
As with many of the world's societies, there are also customary rituals and ceremonies when people die which affect such situations - one here being of families washing their dead relatives before burial. There's a lot of close contact with a body when this is done and, because Ebola is spread through close contact with bodily fluids, this is one of the ways the virus is spreading. People are being warned not to do so, but they are saying that they have to bury their dead that way.
What a sad mess.
Richard
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