Necrosis Filovirus : Possible or just sci-fi?

Deacon,

I would presume that you are reading or have read one of the "Dead World" series by Joe McKinney! Whilst the details of the disease necrosis filovirus as described in the book do not actually exist, research has been done to approximate a likeness for the sake of theoretical licence, if you like! Filoviruses are filamentous, enveloped particles with a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA genome, approximately 19 kb long. Filoviral haemorrhagic fever is associated with multiple haemorrhagic manifestations, marked hepatic involvement, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and shock. Patients who eventually recover have fever for about five to nine days, while in cases resulting in death, clinical signs develop early, with death occurring between days six and sixteen. Mortality is high and varies between 30 and 90%, depending on the virus. Human filovirus outbreaks seem of a zoonotic nature. However, no non-human vertebrate or arthropod vectors have been identified. All human filoviral haemorrhagic fever outbreaks have been traced to an African origin. In cases ending in death, clinical signs occur at an early stage and the patient dies between day six and sixteen, from haemorrhage and hypovolemic shock. Enjoy the “Dead World” series, which to date includes four novels and half a dozen stories!

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matador 89

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No, there are a lot of flesh-eating bacteria out there. I think recently a young woman who cut her leg while ziplining and fell into a river contracted a particularly bad case of it and lost her arm and both legs. But while these bacteria are real, they are very rare in modern-day civilization. You would almost have to go looking for them in the wilderness to contract anything.