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Ebola virus has been mutating as it's spreading
Posted on 8/28/14 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 8/28/14 at 1:36 pm
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The Ebola virus sweeping through West Africa has mutated repeatedly during the current outbreak, a fact that could hinder diagnosis and treatment of the devastating disease, according to scientists who have genetically sequenced the virus in scores of victims.
The findings, published Thursday in the journal Science, also offer new insights into the origins of the largest and most deadly Ebola outbreak in history, which has killed more than 1,500 people in four countries and shows few signs of slowing
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Thursday’s study also details hundreds of genetic mutations that make the current Ebola outbreak different from any in the past. Some of those changes have the potential to affect the accuracy of diagnostic tests or the effectiveness of vaccines and treatments under development for the disease.
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Posted on 8/28/14 at 1:39 pm to Alahunter
Ebola STACKED.
SEC fricked.
SEC fricked.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 1:41 pm to Alahunter
Posted on 8/28/14 at 1:41 pm to Alahunter
Quarantine Africa
Posted on 8/28/14 at 1:45 pm to Alahunter
It came mutated this time to begin with from what I understand. Other outbreaks burned themselves out with a 90% fatality rate. This one isn't killing as efficiently but it's in a more populated area and they mutate quickly on shear numbers of reproduction.
The good news is that it's scary enough that everyone is working on stopping it who is able. The bad news is it is killing thousands and might just get out of Africa somewhere horrible like Indochina.
The good news is that it's scary enough that everyone is working on stopping it who is able. The bad news is it is killing thousands and might just get out of Africa somewhere horrible like Indochina.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 2:44 pm to Alahunter
tLastofus
Posted on 8/28/14 at 2:45 pm to Alahunter
Until touching each others' bodily fluids becomes a regular thing in America, we'll be okay. Not to blithely generalize but cleanliness standards in Africa aren't what they are here.
This isn't an airborne disease. You have to actually touch an Ebola victim's bodily fluids to get it. Just makes me wonder what those Africans are up to that it's spreading so quickly.
This isn't an airborne disease. You have to actually touch an Ebola victim's bodily fluids to get it. Just makes me wonder what those Africans are up to that it's spreading so quickly.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 3:08 pm to Alahunter
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which has killed more than 1,500 people in four countries and shows few signs of slowing
in this time period, I wonder how many people died of aids, hunger, flu etc..., in the same region
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