> Well, it depends on the typpe of Ebola. Uber-scary ebola incubates and > kills quickly with a 95% mortality. Kinder, friendlier Ebola incubates > longer and has a 25% mortality rate.
Adding up the figures on cases and deaths from the WHO website gives Ebola-Zaire an 81% mortality rate (a couple of sites say 90% - Wikipedia and what looks like a student page at Stanford), Ebola-Sudan a 53% mortality rate, and Ebola-Côte d'Ivoire (all two cases) a 0% mortality rate. Ebola-Reston has never caused illness in humans, although four people developed antibodies.
Can't find anything on the incubation periods for either; if you have a reference I'd be grateful.
> I would rather not catch either one in any case.
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Date: 2005-09-14 04:00 pm (UTC)> kills quickly with a 95% mortality. Kinder, friendlier Ebola incubates
> longer and has a 25% mortality rate.
Adding up the figures on cases and deaths from the WHO website gives Ebola-Zaire an 81% mortality rate (a couple of sites say 90% - Wikipedia and what looks like a student page at Stanford), Ebola-Sudan a 53% mortality rate, and Ebola-Côte d'Ivoire (all two cases) a 0% mortality rate. Ebola-Reston has never caused illness in humans, although four people developed antibodies.
Can't find anything on the incubation periods for either; if you have a reference I'd be grateful.
> I would rather not catch either one in any case.
Agreed.