Anything for a fellow Chesterton fan.
My Chesterton tag line is so apropos that I don’t envision the need for a change in this millenium.
;>)
This source provided me with a concise and relatively understandable ( as lay man) source of info.
The most surprising thing about ZEbola is the speed with which it turns the immune systems first responders to its advantage, co-opting them as it were.
From the cited link:
https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Infection_Mechanism_of_Genus_Ebolavirus
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.....Meanwhile, the immune system is going haywire (Fig 21). Interferons are not being made because VP35 interferes with nearly every step in the process [2]. White blood cells are trapped inside the circulatory system because sGP limits their movement [49]. Macrophages and monocytes are releasing a cocktail of proinflammatory cytokines that destroy the vascular endothelium, but also activate the coagulation cascade. This puts your body in a paradoxical state in which you can die of hypovolemic shock from massive hemorrhage, or from catastrophic thrombosis, the formation of blood clots around the body [17]
That certainly recalls the relatively recently postulated role of cytokine storms in the Spanish Flu’s high fatality rate among the young and healthy.