Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Strikes Threatened As Three Ebola Medics Detained For Killing WHO Doctor" video.

  1. Styx seems unfamiliar with the culture of western medical intervention in continental Africa. Going back decades, the medical exploitation of the continent has undoubtedly attained mythical proportions in the minds of the native population. There are reasons for the prevailing perception of western medical intervention, by the native peoples, as extremely dangerous...
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  2. Everything that "lives" strives to survive BETTER; but, "mutation" is all about random influences, like cosmic rays. It's the same mechanism in action, though, whether evolutionary development or response to random damage. My point is that ebola should naturally evolve to survive more efficiently--killing quickly is counterproductive to survival. However, if ebola is especially susceptible to mutation, its evolutionary development may see a wildly winding and twisting road before it, so to speak.
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