Which makes me wonder if there’s some sort of genetic susceptibility some people have that others don’t. But I’m no doctor...
maybe, but the virus is behaving like it is absorbed through the skin (unbroken skin).
Years ago I saw a show on the history channel that used DNA studies to come to that conclusion regarding the bubonic plague.
I think it is more of a case where the family could be sick and dying and our government would hide it.
Yes. I’ve wondered that too. Perhaps this virus has been around a really long time (before modern WHO and CDC) and Africans have an immunity to it. The ones that have a flawed gene (perhaps) succumb? They have only “studied” it since 1976. Not enough time to know everything, but this would explain why in the populous African Countries with poor sanitation, the virus hasn’t killed millions.
You may not be a doctor, but you are right about the general concept. With every pathogen, some people are more susceptible. And some people are immune.
My wild speculation on genetics can be seen in post 70.
There are many variations in the immune system that make some people more able to fight off diseases than other people. Other variations make people more susceptible to diseases than normal. Because of those variations, our species is highly likely to survive if something highly lethal and contagious were to wipe (almost) everyone out.
There was an article in the newspaper years ago that said that the people who survived the old plagues of Europe, had some kind of natural immunity to AIDs and they were being studied to see if a vaccine or cure could be found by studying their immune systems. Could be the same with Ebola?