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John Titor's Legacy
John Titor and the Ebola Outbreak
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<blockquote data-quote="Ayasano" data-source="post: 92181" data-attributes="member: 4804"><p>I think you may be confusing your terms. If a disease is <em>endemic</em>, it means it remains stable in a population over a long period of time without external input, (eg. Flu) which isn't the case in Japan, as the region has had no reported cases of the disease in the last 70 years, and the current outbreak was likely caused by a local mosquito biting an infected person who had caught the disease from a mosquito in another country.</p><p></p><p>Now, the current outbreak is definitely an <em>epidemic</em>, (mostly confined to a single, local population) but the potential for it to become a <em>pandemic</em> (spread between multiple populations over multiple regions) is very low. The lack of direct human-to-human transfer means that a mosquito has to be physically carried from one region to another, or a person has to be bitten by an infected mosquito and then bitten again by an uninfected mosquito in another region. That added in-between step means the disease is far less likely to jump regions compared to, say, Flu, where an infected person can spread it directly to multiple people as they pass through an airport. The advent of widespread air travel has obviously made it easier for Dengue Fever to jump regions, but it's still relatively low-risk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ayasano, post: 92181, member: 4804"] I think you may be confusing your terms. If a disease is [I]endemic[/I], it means it remains stable in a population over a long period of time without external input, (eg. Flu) which isn't the case in Japan, as the region has had no reported cases of the disease in the last 70 years, and the current outbreak was likely caused by a local mosquito biting an infected person who had caught the disease from a mosquito in another country. Now, the current outbreak is definitely an [I]epidemic[/I], (mostly confined to a single, local population) but the potential for it to become a [I]pandemic[/I] (spread between multiple populations over multiple regions) is very low. The lack of direct human-to-human transfer means that a mosquito has to be physically carried from one region to another, or a person has to be bitten by an infected mosquito and then bitten again by an uninfected mosquito in another region. That added in-between step means the disease is far less likely to jump regions compared to, say, Flu, where an infected person can spread it directly to multiple people as they pass through an airport. The advent of widespread air travel has obviously made it easier for Dengue Fever to jump regions, but it's still relatively low-risk. [/QUOTE]
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