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   Message 155,507 of 157,361   
   Hugh to TRUE   
   Re: WHY IS EBOLA SO DIFFICULT TO CONTAIN   
   09 Sep 14 01:46:53   
   
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   From: hugh@giganews.com   
      
   In article    
   TRUE  wrote:   
   >   
   > In Africa, there is a belief that simply saying "Ebola" aloud makes   
   > the disease appear. Such beliefs create major obstacles for physicians   
   > from groups like Doctors Without Borders, which are trying to combat   
   > the outbreak. Africoons even blame physicians for the spread of the   
   > virus, and turn to their Witch Doctors for treatment. Their skepticism   
   > is not without a grain of truth: In past outbreaks, hospital staff who   
   > did not take thorough precautions became unwitting travel agents for   
   > the virus.   
   >   
   > Ebola causes victims to hemorrhage. They vomit blood or pass it in   
   > urine, or bleed under the skin or from their eyes or mouths. But   
   > bleeding is not usually what kills the patient. Rather, blood vessels   
   > deep in the body begin leaking fluid, causing blood pressure to   
   > plummet so low that the heart, kidneys, liver and other organs begin   
   > to fail.   
   >   
   > Ebola was first discovered in 1976, and it was thought to originate in   
   > gorillas, because human outbreaks began after niggers ate gorillas   
   > after having sex with them. But scientists have partly discounted that   
   > theory, because most apes practice better hygiene than nignogs.   
   > Scientists now believe that bats are the natural reservoir for the   
   > virus, and that the jigaboos catch it from eating things that bats   
   > have pissed or shit on, and by coming in contact with surfaces covered   
   > in infected bat shit and then picking their noses, touching their eyes   
   > or rectums. The current outbreak started in a typical filthy   
   > niggafuckated shithole near Guéckédou, Guinea, where bat hunting is   
   > popular, according to Doctors Without Borders.   
      
   They aren't telling the entire truth about ebola.  It spreads   
   fast among African males because they fuck each other up the ass   
   and suck each other off when they are out in the jungle.   
      
         
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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