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To: greeneyes
There are so many humans around that a certain percentage of us, somewhere, must have immunity to any particular virus. Just like some people are naturally immune to polio or the flu. Some people are particularly unattractive to fleas or mosquitoes.

No natural law. More like the law of probability.

When you think about it, the percentage of Africans who are immune to ebola might be quite high, in the 20-40 per cent range.

27 posted on 09/06/2014 3:38:13 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Drink your Ovaltine)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
Probability yes.

Can we say with 100% certainty that for all viruses some portion of humans are immune. Nope. What the probability is we don't know. That's my only point, we don't know for sure.

I would proceed as if no one was immune, until I knew for certain who was or was not. Just to have an abundance of caution.

Some people do survive, that we know. What I haven't seen is whether that has been due to some “natural immunity” or whether those people just have super immune system responses to viruses.

Are you aware of any scientific studies investigating the issue, or are you just asserting that There are so many humans around that “a certain percentage of us, somewhere, must have immunity to any particular virus”?

If so, I would love to have a link or list so that I could read up on it. I would be very useful knowledge and a very interesting thing to read about I think.

28 posted on 09/06/2014 4:05:42 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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