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To: exDemMom

That’s not true. The virus doesn’t magically seek out the liver. It has the ability to enter and reprogram several different cell types.


40 posted on 10/29/2014 6:10:07 PM PDT by steerpike100
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To: steerpike100

http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2014/08/what-does-ebola-actually-do?intcmp=collection-ebola

There are several articles that establish that the liver is a site of prolific viral growth. I think what might happen is that the shedding of virus from the liver causes the blood to contain a high number of viruses.

It is true that the virus infects a few different cell types, including cells of the immune system (which live primarily in blood). The preferences for different cell types depends on a number of factors, but is not equal for all of the cell types it infects.


41 posted on 10/30/2014 4:11:44 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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