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Re: Anyone following the ebola outbreak?
by
Balthazar
on 16/10/2014, 18:27:02 UTC
It's not well understood how viruses can spread.  For example, Magic Johnson's wife never caught HIV/AIDS even though she had unprotected sex with her husband for a long time. 
Such example doesn't make sense because there is a perfect and scientifically proven explanation. About 1% of population is immune to HIV. They simply can't be infected by CCR5-utilizing strains due to mutation in the CCR5 gene.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5#HIV