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user-inactivated  ·  3697 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A very good writeup on ebola

    That said, there is a continued and growing risk that a mutant strain of Ebola virus might arise that can survive the measures that we currently think are adequate to contain it.

I want to know the science here. I have a layman's grasp but really no way of telling for myself how real that risk is. I've read things that are all over the map. Some people claim ebola has already surely mutated at least somewhat just in the last few months, because we've allowed it continued contact to "learn" about humans for the longest period of time ever. That's the shit that makes me wonder.