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Is it not always the case?

Do we say that Ebola doesn't kill you directly, it's the hemorrhaging and multi-organ failure?

Of course it doesn't kill you "directly" for some sufficiently narrow definition of direct.



Except for the flu apparently. The flu never kills. It's the pneumonia and heart failure.




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