Ebola is a virulent virus. It can survive outside the body for several days, allowing those who touch contaminated surfaces to infect themselves days after the fact. Also given the fact that it takes around 10 days to show symptoms after infection---the risk for a pandemic is obvious. As about 50 percent of invected indivduals die---the lethality of the virus helps to contain the spread somewhat.
One must understand that the figures of actual deaths from Ebola in Africa are pure speculation. Outside of a few large cities in Liberia and Sierra Leone, there is no usually no 911 call service, no police, no hospitals. There are no modern CSI teams operating from the corrupt and primative governments there. An entire village in the jungle backwaters there could be wiped-out, and no one in charge would know. There are few paved hiways. Local roadworkers and bandits set up ad-hoc roadblocks to extract bribes for passage. Even short journeys can take days.
Given that the US with its best experts couldn't save an infected alien with Ebola---one can easily project that the death rates in these African ****hole nations is at least three times higher than given. The best strategy should have been to isolate these infected areas and let nature take its course. All trade and travel there should be banned.
Large, dirty cities in the US and Europe where these Africans frequent will be the most likely places to be hit next.
Liberian American organizations estimate there are between 250,000 and 500,000 Liberians living in the United States. This figure includes Liberian residents that have a temporary status, and American of Liberian descent. The metropolitan areas with the largest Liberian immigrant populations are New York and Washington, D.C.; other cities with significant numbers of Liberians include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Houston and Fort Worth (Texas), Hartford (Connecticut), Los Angeles and Oakland (California), Miami, Minneapolis and Philadelphia. So, as states such as Rhode Island and New Jersey. [6]
Most Liberian Americans live on the east coast of United States (New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina). So, it is thought Rhode Island (specifically Providence) is the state with the largest Liberian population in the country (about 0.4% of the city's population is of Liberian ancestry).[6] Specifically in the western part, most Liberian Americans living on his coast, live in California, especially in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland and Stockton. In fact, the Liberian Community Foundation, in Vallejo, California, estimated that about 4,000 Liberians living in Northern California. Meanwhile, the Liberian Community Association of Southern California, estimates that another 2,000 Liberian Americans live in Southern California.[6] Also Chicago has an important Liberian community because there is the Midwestern Consul General of the Honorary Liberian Consulate.[7] More than 30,000 people of Liberian descent live in Minnesota.[10]
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