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I stopped when I read about acquired immunity being passed down in the genetic code.

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I stopped when I read about acquired immunity being passed down in the genetic code.

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I stopped when I read about acquired immunity being passed down in the genetic code.

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/10/4/l_104_05.html

They don't have many of them. They are actively searching for people but it's been very difficult.

The people who would carry it would have been some the original carriers of the disease back in the day. The genoese.

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I am aware of that.  It is a pre existing gene that provides partial/full immunity.  Your genetics are not altered by your immune response.

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Weak. I stuck it out through the whole post.

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One other thing, I realize that the Plague was bacterial and Ebola is a virus, having said that the ORIGINAL plague would still be very hard to treat today even with anti biotics. It's a gram bacteria and lacks a cell wall it's very effective at what it does.
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http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=16687


LMGTFY




   

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originally, yes. this strain is a sneaky bastard.

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I wrote a paper on this once. There is a book called "The great Mortality" by John Kelly. It's very good and talks about how the plague spread in Europe and it's original origins.



Hint: it doesn't originate in rats.



There was a man named Malthus. Now Malthus isn't very well known because he wasn't any kind of genius, just a guy with common sense, like many like minded individuals on this forum. (not trolling or joking)



Malthus stated that nature/world balances itself, he was kind of half philosopher half statistician. His premise came to be known as a "Malthusian Mechanism". Basically after long rainy seasons, rodent or other mammal, populations would explode due to higher nutrition and lack of malnourishment.



When this happens everything stays good for a year or two then a sickness will come through and wipe out the populations. It's mother natures way of keeping things in check. Well the same thing happened in Europe. One of the trends that has been recorded too is that some people will be able to stave off the sickness longer than others. It's just genetics.



This allows the sickness to spread to others. It also ensures that SOME of the host(s) will become immune and their genetic code will pass on too future generations.(People who caught the plague and survived passed on a special genetic code that allows them to be HIV carriers but not develop AIDS)



After years of over crowding, poor health and nothing to keep the population in check the plague came through like a wildfire and killed almost 2/3 of Europe. What a lot of people don't know though is that the ORIGINAL plague that swept through Europe was not the bubonic. It was a much simpler form that had an incubation rate of about 2 days and killed within a week. Very nasty stuff. Then the bubonic came and finished what it's nasty cousin started.



Now what you'll never hear said is that a lot of the people killed from it were genetically defective. 100 years prior to the plague Europe had suffered terrible droughts and the generations that came after had weak immune systems and other diseases.





One other thing, I realize that the Plague was bacterial and Ebola is a virus, having said that the ORIGINAL plague would still be very hard to treat today even with anti biotics. It's a gram bacteria and lacks a cell wall it's very effective at what it does.



Edit: Oh there is some hope though. The plague is what helped the renaissance come about. As Europeans died many realized that the local Church/Theocracy wasn't as powerful as they made themselves look. Many abandoned their post and left their people too die. This spurred individual thinking and questions about self preservation. If something like this happened maybe people would wake up and realize the world isn't all peaches and cream and that you can't rely on a man in a suit too make all the decisions for you.

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Yeah, must be a troll. There's no ebola.

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I stopped when I read about acquired immunity being passed down in the genetic code.

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bad enough drinking shitty water, but it gets real interesting when bodies are floating in it.

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bad enough drinking shitty water, but it gets real interesting when bodies are floating in it.

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My great grandmother was killed by the 1918 flu epidemic

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bad enough drinking shitty water, but it gets real interesting when bodies are floating in it.

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The Spanish Flu pandemic killed more people world wide in 18 months than the Black Plague did in ten years.

Ebola (in it's current form) is nothing in comparison.

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He was on the radio today saying that new cases were dropping.

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He was on the radio today saying that new cases were dropping.