Behind Ebola Marburg Trailer

Teaser trailer for the upcoming documentary on the deadly Ebola and Marburg virus in production.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Ebola
• Marburg
• Africa
• Uganda
• Bats
• Virus
• Outbreak
• Africans
• Kitum
• Python
• Cave
• Bundibugyo
• CDC
• Kraljic
• HVX-200
• HD

[aznerd999]

just read The Hot Zone

[fjkraljic]

@aznerd999 ...and?

[yesilful]

What happened to documentary ?

[fjkraljic]

@yesilful ... There has not been an outbreak since 2007, however in the meantime, the plan is to join an expedition to the DRC later this year in search for the Ebola virus in bats. Updates will be posted.

[mustwinder]

Rabies is far worse than Ebola or Marburg, kills over 50,000 people a year with virtually no hope of survival, the mortaility rate is not 50-90 pecent, it's 99.999 percent.

[fjkraljic]

@mustwinder ... Agreed. And there are many other diseases like malaria, which are killing thousands upon thousands of people every year.  Only difference is, these diseases are treatable and in many ways preventable.

[SizeStudios]

@fjkraljic I'm sorry, but you're wrong. Ebola is the most dangerous virus known to science. The reason Rabies, malaria and many other diseases like them are killing so many is because they don't kill as efficiently as Ebola or Marburg. With Ebola, it kills so quickly (Average at 9 days) and violently, it "burns itself out" and then will stop it's assault and retreat into the unknown. With those other diseases, they will slowly burn out. It's Ebola's lethality which is it's only drawback.

[SizeStudios]

I'm back again. I came back from Africa almost 1 month ago and while I was there, I contacted a strain of malaria. Yet, the symptoms were terrible, and, being a young person, my immense system hasn't been fully developed. Obviously the effects were worse I was out of school for a while. But the point is I'm alive. If I had contracted Ebola/Marburg, I would have been dead more than two weeks ago. This is proof (Personal proof) that Ebola/Marburg have a more devastating effect on the human body.

[TLCTanks]

@aznerd999 reading it right now :D.

[SukhdevZomer]

@fjkraljic horrifying, and a pageturner. you'll race through the book because its utterly fascinating, yet very alarming at the same time.

[mustwinder]

@fjkraljic Ebola and Marburg are definitely the 2nd and 3rd worst infections to get, no question. Malaria is bad too, and it's not usually preventable in areas where it commonly occurs, affecting the very poor, many of the victims are children. Malaria kills a couple million a year and AIDS is still killing millions as well. If Ebola and Marburg start to become more widespread, then we'll have a serious problem! Another *gift* from bats.

[mustwinder]

@Magicquickfingers Yeah, there is a vaccine but in many places, it's too expensive or not available at all. Once symptoms appear (10 days to 7 years after a bite or scratch) it kills very quickly with symptoms that are much worse than Ebola. Here in America, there are only 2 cases per year but unfortunately, they typically come from bat bites which can be almost impossible to detect due to the bat's tiny teeth. No shots in the gut anymore, they are pretty painless.

[Magicquickfingers]

@mustwinder to my understanding you can survive rabies by a series of shots to the stomach if you get the shots within several days?

[thatsexyerikkid]

@fjkraljic There is no cure for Marburg or Ebola. There are cures for Malaria and Rabies, this is why the aformentioned are far more deadly. The reason so many more people die from the latter mentioned, is because of poor treatment in the areas and transmission methods. Marburg and Ebola kill so quickly that usually the victim dies before they can spread it, and it's not airborne like malaria is (through mosquitos) If ebola ever evolved to be airborne, the human race would be nearly wiped out.

[mustwinder]

@SnotRockets55 In many places, vaccines are not available and like I said, it kills 55,000+ people a year. A much higher case to fatality rate, only 7 people are known to have survived without the vacccine. This makes it a much more dangerous virus. Marburg and Ebola are extremely rare, I would imagine the average amount of cases per year does not exceed 40 (if you average 1967-present) If the vaccine were easy to get and people were more educated, we wouldn't be seeing so many deaths.

[SnotRockets55]

@mustwinder Not comparable. If medical attention is sought in time and people get the injections, their chances of dying from Rabies goes down significantly. But with Ebola, there is almost nothing that can be done for you if you contract it, PERIOD. Which makes it way more dangerous than Rabies.

[Grawr93XD]

the camera man.. O.O