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New You didn't read/see "The Andromeda Strain", did you? :-/
New I don't think Ebola is radiation powered...
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
New Yeahbut...
My recollection, which I admit may be faulty, is that the complex had a nuclear bomb self-destruct mechanism in case something really bad happened. The hero recognized, almost too late, that setting it off might cause the pathogen to mutate faster and/or spread over a larger area and make it even more deadly.

Cheers,
Scott.
(Who should read that and Fail Safe again one of these days.)
New Right... the virus "fed" on radiation.
It wasn't normal mutation, but rather an intrinsic feature of the pathogen.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
New petit mal seizure triggered by blinky lights
Yup, I saw that movie as a very young kid. And blinky lights seriously distract me. I got into an accident when I was 18 because my gaze followed a cop car rather than the road. I have to exert serious self control when driving to avoid it happening again.
     Ebola: Game over - (crazy) - (35)
         no, kills too efficiently -NT - (boxley) - (1)
             nope - (crazy)
         The comments on that article are quite frankly unhinged. -NT - (jake123) - (2)
             Dude, you forgot the rule - (pwhysall)
             oh, agreed - (crazy)
         It lives in the woods - hiding there isn't a good idea. - (Another Scott) - (2)
             Thanks for that sane perspective.. kinda spoils the Frenzy. -NT - (Ashton)
             Quite a lot of those things live in fruit bats. - (static)
         Maybe I was a little too dismissive earlier... - (Another Scott) - (13)
             I was not gonna followup - (crazy) - (11)
                 But, you didn't account for Cuba's involvement. - (a6l6e6x)
                 only getting worse - (crazy) - (9)
                     You didn't read/see "The Andromeda Strain", did you? :-/ -NT - (Another Scott) - (4)
                         I don't think Ebola is radiation powered... -NT - (malraux) - (2)
                             Yeahbut... - (Another Scott) - (1)
                                 Right... the virus "fed" on radiation. - (malraux)
                         petit mal seizure triggered by blinky lights - (crazy)
                     Proportionality - (pwhysall) - (3)
                         Apples and Orangutangs - (crazy) - (2)
                             actually that is a good thing - (boxley) - (1)
                                 Last I saw, the mortality rate was 70% not 50%... - (Another Scott)
             look at the bright side - (boxley)
         and it hits another country - (crazy) - (12)
             What? A nurse infected? - (pwhysall) - (6)
                 hey, I'm married to a nurse - (crazy) - (5)
                     And this pro agrees - (crazy) - (4)
                         And this pro disagrees. - (Another Scott) - (3)
                             we are too stupid to take sensible precautions - (boxley) - (1)
                                 MERS or MRSA? - (mmoffitt)
                             crock o'shite - (crazy)
             There were 2 potential cases in the DC area on Friday. - (Another Scott) - (4)
                 Does any of this remind you of AIDS circa 1983? -NT - (mmoffitt) - (3)
                     Scary diseases are scary. - (Another Scott)
                     no. - (crazy) - (1)
                         I was talking about the similar levels of hysteria. -NT - (mmoffitt)

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