Ebola virus outbreak in Africa

[g1687jkarh at umbsky.cc.umb.edu]

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>There can certainly be a valid argument against your opinion that AIDS is 
>"the MOST dangerous disease".  It's been given a BL3 rating, the 
>hemorrhagic fever viruses are BL4.  HIV is actually relatively hard to
>contract compared with the filoviruses.

     BL ratings do not reflect how dangerous a disease causing organism is
to humans, but how careful people in the labs think they should be with the
organisms. If it scares the crap outta them, its BL4. If not, it's not.
Also a BL4 rating makes something a more of a "controlled substance" since
there are few P4 labs and most are military. If something is BL4, it's 
probably for military reasons. 

     I think that Ebola could be safely handled with P3 containment or
even carefully followed P2 conditions. BL4 isn't perfect, just read about
hole in glove incidents.