Ebola Has Already Mutated More Than 300 Times…”395 Mutations And Counting”
Kevin Loria
BusinessInsider.com
Oct. 20, 2014
The world has never seen an Ebola epidemic like this one.
Instead of improving, the situation is getting worse, with infection rates growing exponentially in three West African countries. The disease is so out of control there that the World Health Organization has said that by early December, there could be 10,000 new Ebola infections every week.
The intensity of the outbreak has prompted some researchers to ask if something is different about the virus this time. After all, the Ebola virus — like all viruses — changes over time.
Is it possible that a recent mutation transformed Ebola into something more contagious?
395 Mutations And Counting
First, to get this out of the way: though it’s theoretically possible that the virus could mutate to become airborne, we don’t even know if it’s physically possible. In the more than 100 years that we’ve studied viruses, we’ve never seen a human virus change its mode of transmission.
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