On September fifth 2014 in the midst of the worst Ebola outbreak in humam history the New York Times covered a scientific paper where a team surveyed 10% of all villages in Gabon, looking and testing for Ebola antibodies. This is a sign of exposure to the virus or as they're known "the 10%(who survived)". What was shocking though was that an entire cluster of villages that had the antibodies ans therefore immunity but had never, ever, experienced even mild symptom. The disease is literally unknown in that despite a third of the population caught the virus, which their body handled as though it were a flu, but not as severe. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/06/health/ebola-immunity.html

"The biggest mystery is how the immunity arose," - translation: the people in a cluster of villages in Gabon have antibodies to the really bad Ebola virus, Zaire. So they've been exposed to it, but nobody's heard of the disease. Nobody got sick, nobody. The disease is unknown in the ares.

http://en.ird.fr/the-media-centre/scientific-newssheets/337-possible-natural-immunity-to-ebola

"A surprisingly high proportion of the Gabonese population could have immunity against Ebola. Antibodies to the virus were found in 15.3% of rural communities, whereas these people had never had haemorrhagic fever or other specific symptoms of the disease (such as severe diarrhoea or vomiting). IRD researchers and their partners 1 recently discovered this large number of healthy carriers among Gabonese people, even in areas where there has never been an Ebola outbreak."

It's actually 15 - 34% depending on the village. Here's the paper these article are referencing:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0009126#pone-0009126-g006

Note the one line: "Together, these findings show that a large fraction of the human population living in forested areas of Gabon has both humoral and cellular immunity to ZEBOV."

That is, if you live in the forest area of that part of Gabon, you won't even notice if you are exposed to the virus that kills 9 out of 10 people if you live anywhere else.

Now what do you suppose the chances are that the people one of the most remote and primitive forests on earth eat cornflakes for breakfast? Or anything you might recognize?

There's something there that confers immunity and it's probably something they eat. This is not really hard to figure out once you know that.

Thier best theory they have so far so far is that infected fruit bats deposit the virus in their saliva on fruit which weakens it, then people are exposed to the weakened virus, gain immunity and that's that. That is not possible.

PErhaps it is possible. Once. Maybe a few times, although it's a guess and never been shown let alone proved. But for this to happen time an time again and 100% of the time the virus is weakened enough to not hurt anyone? No.

Lets get back to the fruit bats for a moment. They're controversial as there known to carry the virus but we do not believe they are the natural reservoir as it kills them and that's ot a property natural reservoir of pathogens have.ols on cants, much more likely is

But they do get the disease, sometimes.

Noe the thing about fruit bats is, the eat fruit. All kinds of fruit. And the ting about fruit is, it doesn't contain a magic virus weakening anent that denatures ebola on contact, much more likely is there exists a molecule in the fruit that confers immunity to both man and bat alike.

Since fruit bats are usually immune to the virus (presumably when properly fed - or they'd all be wiped out) and since both man and badt have acquired immunity, then by reason it has to be a common behaviour - Question: what do man and bat both do there - answer: eat what's in the jungle

Vitamin ? They're so close, it has to be in the fruit, but they need to keep looking very carefully at that fruit, and by the way, what is that weird firot we're taking about here goring in the jungle song gabon. Because one thing is clear form the study. This only happens in the jungle where they still eat what grows there.

If we accept for a moment ascorbate from fruit confers immunity how practical is that? Can we explain what's happening with this? Do the numbers work?

An average human would manufacture 7g a day of ascorbate if we still had the gene - this that's a lot of oranges. But there are odd fruits that have massive amounts of ascorbate. A single rose hp has 1g, and the Kakadu plum, Camu Camu, Acerola contain 1000–5300, 2800 and 1677 mg/100g respectively and keep in mind man was in Africa during the time we lost the ability synthesize ascorbate but probably did not even notice because of the "tree of life" - the fruit of the baobab tree is just packed with the stuff in arid regions, while jungle regions had jungle fruit.

he people that inhabitthat area aere hunter gatherers that hunt with posin arrows, fish using natiural poosind and other than this fihs and game theu survive from plants both cultivated and wild collected. At ties it is more thanhald their as undeter gather are nomadic - they hunt out an area and whwn that fird up tethye move camp, so theyre surviving on jungle produce for a while every tie ewirhg bbefore they move, that's how important that is in their doiet.

It would onlytake 2 or 3 plum sized fruits of th righ tpnt to confer immunity if there were gram amounts of ascorbate in each, and these eplants fo occur. Thois would ecxplain why friuot bats do not usually get it and it would explain the immunity in these remote jungle villages.

But it woldnt need to be a fruit with a hige h level of ascorbate, it could perhaps be something that modiefes the effect of asrocbate. Does such a fruit exists there?

The effect of Sacoglottis gabonensis stem bark extract, a Nigerian alcoholic beverage additive, on the natural antioxidant defences during 2,4-dinitrophenyl hydrazine-induced membrane peroxidation in vivo.

"It is being concluded that the mechanism of antioxidant action of the bark extract against membrane peroxidation is multifactorial/multisystem, involving inhibition of catalase, enhancing the SOD capability of the liver and red blood cells and sparing tissue depletion/utilization of vitamins C (ascorbate acid) and E (alpha-tocopherol)." Yes, Sacoglottis gabonensis

Perhaps it could be selenium

http://drmajeed.com/articles/1996-selenium_review.pdf "The recent [1976] Ebola virus epidemic in Zaire, in which selenium deficient regions have been documented, provides a grounding for the extension of Taylor's theory. According to Taylor the highly pathogenic Zaire strain of Ebola virus encodes a selenoprotein that would require 16 atoms of selenium per molecule. Therefore, the infection with the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus. in theory, could cause a rapid depletion of selenium in the body. It should also be noted that the selenoprotein encoding gene is absent in the Ebola Reston strain, which is considered nonvirulent in humans (Taylor EW, Ramanathan CS, unpublished data. June 1995)."

If there is ample selenium in the soil it wold show up in high concentraoitns in fruit nuts and there is a nut routinelyeaten there. Brazil uts are the new world equivalent, they grow in regons where the rievr wshed all the minerals into a valley leaving lateriic clay behind and minral rich pcets where brazil nut trees gow; they're so absurly hi in he tuff you can get selenosis - selenium poisoning by eating a handful a day for a week.

If he is right, then this could explain not only why certain Gabonese have immunity (check serum levels!) but also why Resotn give you the sniuffles while Zaire tirn syou to soup.