Can Ebola Go Airborne?

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Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgottlieb/2014/09/03/can-ebola-go-airborne/

Pharma & Healthcare 9/03/2014 @ 8:45AM 38 views
Can Ebola Go Airborne?
Scott Gottlieb

A study in the journal Science, released last week, shows that the Ebola strain spreading across Western Africa has undergone a surprisingly high amount of genetic drift during the current outbreak. Experts say the mutations could eventually make the virus harder to diagnose and perhaps treat with a new therapeutic. But can mutations also enable Ebola to spread through the air...

 

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Re: Can Ebola Go Airborne?

The simple fact that the more people become infected, the more likely it is to mutate, should be enough to force fast and united action. Whether or not that will happen depends on whether the best equipped and richest countries are willing to step in. This could easily be a public relations coup for China if the western nations don't move soon.