Losing 90% of your population in one year can really put a dent in economic growth. But the survivors will probably have other things to worry about.

If only the /. summary were attached to some sort of News article. They should consider making that an option so that people could read the attached article before commenting on it.

It is actually geometric growth, because the doubling period is getting shorter. Not that it matters much.

Regrettably, this is actually a thing. Also, bathing children in the funerary water of an Imam. This was a recent story. Ah, there it is... http://awoko.org/2014/09/15/si...

Let't not exaggerate and cause a panic. The community resolution death rate is ~90%, not above 90%. And with treatment your chances of surviving Ebola exposure might be as high as one in three.

Ebola doesn't have to become airborne to wipe out mankind. It just has to change enough to kill the 1% who survive the first (West Africa) and second (DR Congo) waves.

This strain of misinformation is not helpful. Doctors are human all over the world. They make mistakes when they are on a long shift without sleep, making do with limited resource, doing their best against an insurmountable terror. Just imagine dedicating yourself to a life of saving lives and thrust into a situation where no matter what you do 60% of your patients are going to die. Struggling with all your might because even that is four times the survival rate without modern medical treatment. And yet outside your clinic are guards who turn away more desperately ill people than they let in, and more every day. This is the reality. In the US you are proud of our first world medicine? Try to access that care when any kid with sniffles can be carrying a disease that kills doctors. You will find that a lot of doctors in the first world can afford a long sabbatical.

Yuuup.

Americans have other dirty habits West Africans don't have, such as snorting drugs of unknown origin.

The West Point slum quarantine was only for a few days. There were already more patients outside the quarantine than inside. It was more of a toll road than a medical quarantine anyway - people were regularly crossing for as little as $2. This is Liberia.

Compare to the SGS3. http://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_...

Except for storage these phones are on par with the 2012 champ SGS III. With millions more apps, better hardware video support, better battery life and India specific features like dual Sim, FM radio they should do well.

Google and their hardware partners are doing a lot to bring the benefit of technology to more people than have had it before.

Civilization was us pretending for a while that we were better than we are. We aren't. We are dirty, nasty voracious animals with poor self control.

Ebola gets through healthy skin. This is one very nasty virus. Five virions on one skin cell is all it takes to be 100% certain the victim will be infected. One virion has a good chance. 90% of the infected die. One cc of blood from a terminal Ebola victim is more than enough virions to infect all mankind.