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Originally Posted by chagrin
Yeah, I can dig it; in the show, it was a hybrid of the Marburg that 100% fatal, pretty cool TV show - glad to know that the Marburg doesn't actually make you sweat blod, umm...or does it?
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here's a list of the symptoms according to the cdc (they're usually pretty reliable)
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Originally Posted by cdc
After an incubation period of 5-10 days, the onset of the disease is sudden and is marked by fever, chills, headache, and myalgia. Around the fifth day after the onset of symptoms, a maculopapular rash, most prominent on the trunk (chest, back, stomach), may occur. Nausea, vomiting, chest pain, a sore throat, abdominal pain, and diarrhea then may appear. Symptoms become increasingly severe and may include jaundice, inflammation of the pancreas, severe weight loss, delirium, shock, liver failure, and multi-organ dysfunction.
Because many of the signs and symptoms of Marburg hemorrhagic fever are similar to those of other infectious diseases, such as malaria or typhoid fever, diagnosis of the disease can be difficult, especially if only a single case is involved.
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http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/m...marburg/qa.htm
interesting stuff... if my memory serves right, another 'symptom' of most hemorrhagic fevers is 'crashing and bleeding out,' in other words... going into cardiac arrest, your body shutting down (obviously), and spewing virus-riddled blood out of every body opening simultaneously... so it's not sweating blood, but it's damned close
FTR: if you're interested in a virus (or disease) with a 100% fatality rate, look no further than untreated rabies (if I recall correctly, I read that a few years back)... ebola-zaire kills as many as 95% of people who contract it as well (not 100%, but close in some instances)
the thing that's scary about a virus to me is the ones that don't have such a high fatality rate... the most lethal outbreaks and killers in history have been caused by viruses that killed a relatively 'small' percent of those who got it, yet it was easily spread... e.g., smallpox (30% fatality), plague (all variants: Mortality 50-90% if untreated; 15% when diagnosed and treated... if memory serves, this rate is brought up due to the fact that pneumonic plague and septicimic plague are 75% and 100% fatal respectively, and bubonic is around 30-50%)