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re: First confirmed case of Ebola in US
Posted on 9/30/14 at 8:06 pm to kilo
Posted on 9/30/14 at 8:06 pm to kilo
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No, its not very likely. Most of the experts give it a very very small chance of actually developing the mutation.
I saw a doctor discussing earlier that we've already seen various hemorrhagic fever mutations.
Wasn't the outbreak in 2009 a different strain?
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Posted on 9/30/14 at 8:12 pm to EKG
Strains don't mean it changes its overall nature. Ebola is an enveloped virus. Meaning it can change rapidly once its inside the host, evading the immune system (its high death rate), but it is not transmitted as easily as non-enveloped viruses. Non-enveloped viruses have a protein coat but no envelope, and are not so easily degraded outside the body.
This is why it is extremely hard for an enveloped virus to suddenly lose its envelope and develop a protein coat to become nonenveloped. It would be like asking you to spontaneously grow another stomach because you ate too much.
This is why it is extremely hard for an enveloped virus to suddenly lose its envelope and develop a protein coat to become nonenveloped. It would be like asking you to spontaneously grow another stomach because you ate too much.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 8:13 pm to EKG
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Wasn't the outbreak in 2009 a different strain?
There have always been a number of different strains, at least according to the articles I have read.
There is actually a strain where the mortality rate is very low.
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