Posted on 10/16/2014 2:41:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I don’t know why, but the timing of this conveniently miraculous story smells funny to me.
I have believed this for quite a while.
We seem to have reached a point where any good or calming news are met with skepticism or cynicism....
I wonder who we can blame for that...
You know, that got me to thinking they need to run an experiment to prove that hypothesis. They should expose everyone in D.C. to Ebola and then see how many survive based on natural immunity alone.
My guess would be however that during initial infection of a person who is immune that they may be carriers of disease who are capable of passing it on to someone who is not immune.
Since this is the case with dogs then why would it be different for people.
That is the scariest situation.
Instead of “Typhoid Mary” we get an “Ebola Bob” or somesuch...
“If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.”
I could believe 7.1%.
There have been studies of the Bubonic plague of 1666 that show there were also some people who never contracted the plague despite being in direct contact with plague victims. Tracing their descendents it was found they had a unique genetic marker that apparently gave them immunity. That said I would not want to find out if I had a similar immunity to Ebola.
Immune systems can be quite different in different people. My sibling catches flu and all kinds of other stuff, I never catch any of it. Well, I did have a bad case of flu one time, the one year I got a flu shot.
OTOH, my system overreacts to most prescription drugs. All “doses” are overdoses for me. My dentist knows that 1/4 amount of anesthetic is all it takes, even for a root canal.
Biogenetic testing is beginning to be available. You can have your blood tested to determine which medications are good and bad for your system.
In the case of Ebola, some sort of biogenetic testing will surely provide good answers to apparent immunity. OTOH, ebola is a very enterprising virus, ready and able to mutate when threatened. Can we outwit it?
When I was a young tyke, I was catching in a neighborhood game of baseball. I got too close when my sister took a swing at a high pitch and she hit me in the neck with the BAT! I could hardly breath or swallow. Almost died!
I’m thinking that encounter with a BAT may have made me immune to Ebola.
Your first point is correct. But ‘Since this is the case with dogs’ is not true.
Not develop symptoms does not equate to ‘not carrying virus’.
This is not news or new. No one virus can wipe out mankind due to genetic variation.
At the end of the article is this -
“The scientists’ published their thoughts in a letter which appeared in The Lancet medical journal on Tuesday.”
I think this is an outright attempt to gain research funds.
Nope. Totally true with dogs. They are not symptomatic, but can carry and transmit the virus.
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