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   Nearly 5,000 people have died from Ebola since the current   
   outbreak of the virus began sweeping through Sierra Leone,   
   Guinea and Liberia. But thousands of others have survived   
   infection. The wide range of outcomes is still not entirely   
   understood, but new research published Thursday in Science   
   suggests that genetic factors have something to do with it.   
      
   Most lab mice are nearly identical genetically. That’s usually   
   desirable, because it helps to control experiments performed in   
   a laboratory setting. But to test why Ebola kills some while   
   others are spared, systems biologists and virologists Angela   
   Rasmussen and Michael Katze, from the University of Washington’s   
   Department of Microbiology, used a special type of mouse bred to   
   reflect genetic diversity. The researches infected these   
   mice—called “Collaborative Cross” mice—with a mouse-adapted   
   strain of the Ebola virus, in an effort to test the impact an   
   individual’s genetic makeup has on the development and ultimate   
   outcome of the disease.   
      
      
   Whereas regular lab mice that had previously been infected with   
   Ebola died without showing symptoms, the results observed in CC   
   mice, as they are called, look much like the outcomes in West   
   Africa, where some people resist the disease entirely, others   
   become ill but recover, and still others “succumb to bleeding,   
   organ failure and shock,” according to a press release on the   
   research.   
      
   The bottom line?  Negroes are dirty.  Dirty people die.   
      
   http://www.newsweek.com/why-do-some-die-ebola-and-others-survive-   
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