Friday, October 31, 2014

Genetics Could Influence Whether Ebola Will be Fatal

A study on mice has suggested that genetics may play a role in the severity of the Ebola virus infection. At a high-security, state-of-the-art biocontainment laboratory in Hamilton, Montana, scientists infected mice with a mouse form of the same species of the Ebola virus that is sweeping West Africa. Seventy percent of the mice got sick, and more than half of this group died, some due to liver inflammation and others due to internal hemorrhage, according ...

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