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To: Alter Kaker

It was on pubmed, maybe they’re a gossip site too!


95 posted on 10/02/2014 10:07:11 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes
It was on pubmed, maybe they’re a gossip site too!

I read the original study. A couple of points: (1) genetic studies show that the disease has jumped from animals to humans only once in the current outbreak despite the presence of vast numbers of dogs in West African cities and (2) there has never been an observed incidence of an active ebola infection in a dog. The study cited found ebola-related antibodies in dogs in France and in African communities that had never seen a case of ebola. So there's not evidence that dogs are either contracting ebola or, if somehow they are, that they're capable of passing it to humans.

99 posted on 10/02/2014 10:13:47 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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