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To: SeekAndFind

Doesn’t the mortality rate go down 10% with each transmission to a new host? IIRC, humans aren’t good hosts and the virus weakens each time it is passed on to a new host.


12 posted on 08/03/2014 10:30:26 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
Doesn’t the mortality rate go down 10% with each transmission to a new host? IIRC, humans aren’t good hosts and the virus weakens each time it is passed on to a new host.

This is most certainly not applicable to Ebola filovirus.

26 posted on 08/03/2014 12:12:55 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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