Virology was a while ago
but isn't ebola the one where your innards sort of liquefy over the course of a few days and you haemorrhage to death?

I bet you haven't read my dissertation yet, either...
(berk, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 14:53, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

You do haemorrhage to death
But it's a common misconception that it liquefies the organs. Accounts differ, but it seems to be that it just sort of makes them permeable and all the blood leaks out and stops clotting.

Shit...
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 15:01, Reply)

It's actually a rubbish virus, though
that's why it hasn't done much harm. Way too virulent, and too lethal with it. So the host is dead before it really gets a chance to spread, and it's dead in seconds outside the body. Poor form. give it a couple of thousand years to man itself up and it might be a threat.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 15:14, Reply)