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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.

all this is assuming the mutations are occurring in a natural state unmolested. now entertain your conspiratorial side for a second and ask yourself what if this very mutation were helped along in a lab at, say, Ft Detrick.

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Posted by Kcoyote

Member since Jan 2012

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Posted on 9/30/14 at 9:04 pm to AUTiger45

That's a fun topic. There was a professor from I think Delaware earlier in the week saying Ebola started as a biological weapon from the US to destroy the African nations. He supposedly had some sources but I didn't want to look through them as I think it was mostly bullshite.

I do think it would be possible to develop such a mutation, but on the surface we would never know about it. America is too cool for biological weapons these days (or so we think)

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