Scientists Report Ebola Is Mutating, Fear Virus Becoming Airborne
Inquisitr.com
January 29, 2015
The Ebola virus has mutated and could be getting more contagious, according to scientists in Guinea and researchers in France. Adding to their fears, the scientists have expressed grave concerns over the Ebola virus becoming airborne.
Over 22,000 people have been infected with the Ebola virus, and 8,795 have died in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Further scares have been reported across the Western world after medical professionals returned home from crisis-hit regions.
Now hundreds of blood samples from Ebola patients in Guinea are being analysed in an attempt to detect how the virus is changing, and if it’s improving at spreading from person to person.
Geneticist Dr Anavaj Sakuntabhai commented.
“…the virus is changing quite a lot. A virus can change itself to less deadly, but more contagious and that’s something we are afraid of. We’ve now seen several cases that don’t have any symptoms at all, asymptomatic cases. These people may be the ones who could spread the virus better. We need to know how the virus (is changing) to keep up with our enemy.”
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