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NurseRatched
Att det blir luftburet är bara en tidsfråga.
(*seriös*)
Jag tyckte tidigt att jag läste om att detta viruset är stabilt. Att sannolikheten för mutering är liten.
Hittade denna,
http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/179/Supplement_1/S170.long
"Other RNA viruses, such as influenza virus and foot- and- mouth disease virus, undergo rapid evolution within the host [27–29]. These viruses elicit strong host immunologic responses, and neutralizing antibodies are thought to be important in driving their rapid evolution. In the case of EBO virus, this seems not to be the case, since nt changes were not detected in the most variable region of the GP gene even after 82 days of persistence within patient H. One possible explanation for this is the reported lack of a neutralizing antibody response in convalescent-phase sera from patients or experimental animals who survived infection with EBO virus [1]. Postclinical persistence of filoviruses certainly warrants further study."
"it was determined that the EBO virus strain causing disease in Kikwit (EBO, subtype Zaire [EBO-Z] 1995) was genetically very similar to the strain that caused the 1976 EHF outbreak in Yambuku, DRC (EBO-Z 1976) [11]. Nucleotide (nt) divergence between the glycoprotein (GP) genes of these viruses was <2%, despite the fact that they were isolated almost 20 years and >1000 km apart "