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Originally posted by Mia,
Plus I think it's too young to be exposed to all the viruses and other infections, etc. |
Young children's immune system is something like 3x as effective as adult's. Ebola, for instance, has a fatality rate of 80%, and of the 20% that survives, 50% are children, the other 50% are third+ stage infectants (generally, Ebola "evolves" very quickly into a virus that isn't fatal in its third to fourth "generation" of victims, and the immune system eventually overcomes it).
I'm summarizing out of my encyclopedia on the Ebola section (which specifically says that, about the children's immune system, I'm not just inferring).
Just FYI. Children can deal with disease.