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To: MeganC

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.


14 posted on 10/16/2014 2:59:06 PM PDT by Gadsden1st
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Research suggests that people can pick up the virus from the faeces or urine of fruit bats; or by eating infected “bush meat” – usually monkeys that have already been infected. “Some traditional burial customs, whereby all mourners touch the body, also causes the virus to spread, because the virus may be on the skin,”


15 posted on 10/16/2014 3:06:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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