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by dperny 4444 days ago
Ebola has a startlingly high fatality rate, but most cases of it are in developing nations. Does anybody know what fatality rate you could expect from advanced medicine and techniques in a developed nation?
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The fatality rate would be the same. We do not have any treatments available for any of the Ebola strains, as such our only option is to limit the spread. Whether developed nations are better able to do so, I'm not sure.
Governments in the West are stronger, so might be more able to rapidly contain outbreaks as a result, perhaps?