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Francene--Blog. Year 2014

Outer space deposits life and death.

8/8/2014

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Just the other day, news stories reported that space probe Rosetta has reached 67P’s rugged terrain in order to select a site for a lander that it will release in November. From the information gathered, scientists hope to find if comets brought water and dust to seed the beginning of life on Earth.

In a new theory, experts claim that the deadly Ebola virus came from outer space. GETTY said Bacteria can live on meteorites that fall to Earth.

A Spanish priest has been confirmed as Europe’s first case. The virus could have already reached the UK from Africa.

A researcher in Aerospace Engineering at Bristol University, said there is every chance the Ebola virus is alien. Meteorites from Mars land on our planet every year, and bacteria can survive the journey.

Another astrobiology expert claims many diseases arrive on Earth on meteorites. He postulates that a new flare-up of a disease like Ebola shows it has taken up new DNA, probably from space.

Nearly two thousand people in West Africa have been killed in the outbreak so far. Health experts are conferring in Switzerland to decide whether to declare a global health emergency.

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Liberia's president has declared a state of emergency over the world's worst ever outbreak of the virus. Checkpoint authorities began halting all road travel entering and leaving eight of the nation's 15 counties. Ebola victims have started dragging their loved ones' bodies out of their homes and leaving them in the streets according to one news source.

Yesterday, Liberia and Sierra Leone trucked in soldiers to quarantine large sections in response to the collapse of hospitals and clinics in the most Ebola-infected zones. Wards are filling up with patients, running out of supplies, and even lacking staff because medical workers are dying from contamination or fleeing their posts.

The two countries account for 71 % of the 1,711 cases the World Health Organization had recorded as of Aug. 4 in what has become the worst Ebola outbreak in history.

The rapid spread of the disease is frightening. I'm sure, like me, you send compassion to those who face pain, suffering and death.

When you think of it, comets, meteorites and chunks of rock landing on Earth can deposit surprise packages.

Good or bad, we have no control over what arrives. At least nowadays, experts can handle Ebola better than when our ancestors faced the plague.

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Melissa Zia link
8/7/2014 08:16:51 pm

never heard this theory before but could be very possible I suppose, its very worrying though :(
Melissa

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Alana link
8/7/2014 08:21:32 pm

Francene, so many times you come up with interesting bits. Right now, here in the United States, Ebola is very much in the news with the two Americans who were brought back here for treatment, in extreme isolation. Alien virus? My first instinct is to laugh. But they laughed at the scientist who said ulcers were caused by a bacteria, too.

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Sylvia / Happiness is homemade link
8/7/2014 08:35:28 pm

Very interesting! Ebola is all over the news in UK with two Europeans arriving in Spain with possible sympthoms. Sounds scary!

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georgina davies
8/7/2014 09:16:49 pm

very interesting "theories" here not sure I agree but nice to hear different points of view x

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