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So they conveniently forget this little study Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html
28 posted on 10/03/2014 3:34:31 PM PDT by nomad
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http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html


29 posted on 10/03/2014 3:35:00 PM PDT by nomad
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So they conveniently forget this little study Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html

Pigs are not humans, nor even primates. They get a respiratory infection with Ebola. Primates only get a blood infection.

You cannot look at the symptoms of a disease in one species and make any conclusion whatsoever about symptoms in a different species.

An example of how viruses behave differently between species is the herpes B virus. In monkeys, it causes minimal to no symptoms. In humans, it is fatal. Researchers who work with monkeys must wear full PPE to avoid getting that disease, even if the monkeys look perfectly healthy.

55 posted on 10/04/2014 4:56:54 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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