CARIIS
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It had accumulated more than 395 mutations.
They mutate often in animals, from one animal to another. From modes of transmission in animals. indeed. This is where media gets it wrong and causes such a mess!
But there has never ever ever been a mutation in the human as far as transmison goes! A virus that impacts humans has never "switched" to another mode - (into airborne when it is not already.) Influenza, in humans was always airborne. HIV has never been.
That is the distinction.And ya have to admit it is a huge distincition!
There is a difference between replicating and mutating!
Should be comforting - in humans never changed from body fluids to airborne that is good news guys!
They mutate often in animals, from one animal to another. From modes of transmission in animals. indeed. This is where media gets it wrong and causes such a mess!
But there has never ever ever been a mutation in the human as far as transmison goes! A virus that impacts humans has never "switched" to another mode - (into airborne when it is not already.) Influenza, in humans was always airborne. HIV has never been.
That is the distinction.And ya have to admit it is a huge distincition!
There is a difference between replicating and mutating!
Should be comforting - in humans never changed from body fluids to airborne that is good news guys!
That isn't accurate. There isn't something special about human viruses that makes them unable to mutate.
Human viruses mutate all the time.
Ebola virus is mutating very rapidly.
"By comparing their data to the Guinean sequence data, Goba's team confirmed that Ebola was probably imported to Sierra Leone by 12 people who attended the funeral in Guinea, and that the West African outbreak originated in a single event in which the virus passed from an animal into a person. Further comparisons suggest that the virus that caused the outbreak separated from those that caused past Ebola outbreaks about 10 years ago. It had accumulated more than 395 mutations between that time and June, when the researchers collected the last samples included in today's analysis."
http://www.nature.com/news/ebola-virus-mutating-rapidly-as-it-spreads-1.15777