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Warpy

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1. Thank goodness, this is just very sad
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 02:42 PM
Nov 2014

He went downhill very quickly, from being just a little feverish to dead in days instead of weeks.

I keep wondering if there is a genetic component to this, a natural resistance like the one that allowed a few Europeans to survive the Black Death, one horrible disease Africans weren't cursed with.

It might explain the high death toll even with treatment in Africa, while Europeans are managing to survive with treatment.

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