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Anonymous Fri 13 Dec 18:55:05 2019 No.11223165 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11223181

could terminal-disease causing sex-specific viruses or prions emerge or be developed to infect humans?

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Anonymous Fri 13 Dec 2019 19:01:18 No.11223178 Report

Quoted By: >>11223191

sex-specific viruses are probably not possible, unless you mean viruses that infect literally gametes, because gametes are literally separate organisms from all our other body cells, with separate souls, so to speak

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Anonymous Fri 13 Dec 2019 19:04:47 No.11223181 Report

Quoted By: >>11223194

>>11223165
>sex-specific virus
individual cells in the body aren't sexed, and viruses reproduce by hijacking cells to make more of themselves.
prions only affect proteins in the nervous system, so again, no.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Dec 2019 19:13:27 No.11223191 Report

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>>11223178
human DNA is sexed though. i was thinking something that is contingent on the presence or absence of sex proteins like SRY to be activated or inactivated.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Dec 2019 19:15:22 No.11223194 Report

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>>11223181
human DNA is sexed though. i was thinking something that is contingent on the presence or absence of sex proteins like SRY to be activated or inactivated. is that protein not expressed throughout the body? i guess it wouldn't have to be as long as it is in key organs that could kill a person it could work.

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