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Title: Ebola May Be Mutating
Source: Yahoo News
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Published: Jan 31, 2015
Author: The Atlantic By Cari Romm
Post Date: 2015-01-31 09:53:11 by GrandIsland
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Views: 1597
Comments: 16

Only a day after the World Health Organization announced that an end was in sight for the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, scientists had less uplifting news: The virus may be mutating.

“The response to the EVD (Ebola virus disease) epidemic has now moved to a second phase, as the focus shifts from slowing transmission to ending the epidemic,” the WHO said in its latest report on the disease yesterday. There were 99 confirmed new cases last week, the lowest number since June.

But researchers at the Institut Pasteur, the French medical-research organization that first identified the outbreak in Guinea last March, said that they’re trying to determine whether the Ebola virus is becoming more contagious.

"We know the virus is changing quite a lot,” Anavaj Sakuntabhai, the head of the Laboratory for Genetics of Human Response to Infection at the Institut Pasteur, told the BBC. Specifically, he said, there have been a number of asymptomatic cases, meaning that infected people may unknowingly be spreading the disease: “A virus can change itself to less deadly but more contagious, and that's something we are afraid of.”

Sakuntabhai and his colleagues are currently analyzing hundreds of blood samples from Guinean patients to monitor the virus’s evolution. "That's important for diagnosing and for treatment," he said. “We need to know how the virus [is changing] to keep up with our enemy."

"We know the virus is changing quite a lot. It can become less deadly but more contagious, and that's something we're afraid of." Ebola, like measles, HIV, and influenza, is an RNA virus, meaning it can mutate quickly and often. In August, a paper published in the journal Nature found that the virus had already evolved several times over in the first month of the outbreak in Sierra Leone (five of the paper’s authors died of Ebola before their work was published), though there is still nothing to suggest that the virus has become airborne, a common fear over the course of the epidemic, or that it has evolved out of reach of existing treatments. "The mutations do not seem to be affecting the efficacy of experimental drugs and vaccines," Nature reported of the Sierra Leone paper in August.

"It isn't surprising at all that the virus is mutating," said Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, but "I haven't seen any compelling data yet that the mutations are associated with a change in the function of the virus."

According to the most recent numbers from the WHO, the current Ebola outbreak has killed 8,461 people and infected around 22,000, nearly all in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.

 Meanwhile, scientists reported the results from the first human trials of an Ebola vaccine, published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, with cautious optimism. “The safety profile is pretty much as we'd hoped and the immune responses are okay, but not great,” Adrian Hill, the lead researcher for the trials, told Reuters, and researchers believe a booster will probably be needed for full protection. Last week, GlaxoSmithKline, the company that developed the vaccine, shipped 9,000 doses to Monrovia, Liberia for a phase III clinical trial. The Institut Pasteur is also working on two vaccines, aiming for human trials by the end of this year.

“The best type of resource we can think of … is to have vaccination of global populations,” James Di Santo, the head of Pasteur’s Innate Immunology Unit, told the BBC. “This particular outbreak may wane and go away, but we're going to have another infectious outbreak at some point, because the places where the virus hides in nature—for example, in small animals—is still a threat for humans in the future.”

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#1. To: All (#0)

though there is still nothing to suggest that the virus has become airborne,

If it ever mutates with this ability... we will certainly be screwed.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-01-31   9:55:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: GrandIsland (#0)

Someone would need to live in complete isolation to fail to see that mainstream media coverage of the Ebola virus made a 180 degree turn after the midterm elections. The coverage abruptly and dramatically fell off and faded away.

While the outbreak of Ebola was serious, the dedicated fervor and sheer panic was so typical of the media when they reported on the virus that had only infected a small handful of U.S. citizens. Their news coverage was rife with misinformation and oftentimes incomplete.

If only the media would stop creating an atmosphere of anxiety with misinformation and come out with the right kind of coverage to lead to a more active and productive source of information … if only.

Gatlin  posted on  2015-01-31   10:28:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Gatlin (#2)

Fear sells news.

Pericles  posted on  2015-01-31   11:08:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Gatlin (#2)

If only the media would stop creating an atmosphere of anxiety with misinformation and come out with the right kind of coverage to lead to a more active and productive source of information … if only.

It's calmed down dramatically.

I was in South Africa last March, hunting plains game. Not a word of what was happening in Western Africa was spoken in South Africa.

I was bit by a pepper tick, while crawling through the bush, on a 90 minute stalk of a Waterbuck. I was very sick for a week. Tiny tick has a huge wallop. I still bear the scar on my calf.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-01-31   11:15:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: GrandIsland (#4)

I was bit by a pepper tick, while crawling through the bush, on a 90 minute stalk of a Waterbuck. I was very sick for a week. Tiny tick has a huge wallop. I still bear the scar on my calf.

You understand better now why white men wisely stayed out of Africa for so long.

Whitey doesn't do so well in the tropics.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-01-31   11:52:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: TooConservative (#5) (Edited)

You understand better now why white men wisely stayed out of Africa for so long.

Whitey doesn't do so well in the tropics.

It's rough country. Almost everything green has thorns.

I'd happily live there for the last 1/3 of my life... but the wife won't hear of it. I would have hunted every day until my heart took its last beat.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-01-31   12:05:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: GrandIsland (#6)

I would have hunted every day until my heart took its last beat.

Killing 4-legged, unarmed creatures of gawd for pleasure? Figures.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2015-01-31   12:10:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Fred Mertz (#7)

Killing 4-legged, unarmed creatures of gawd for pleasure? Figures.

The animals I hunted, fed a whole village. When's the last time you fed 100 needy people? lol

The food chain even has liberal, PETA types above the animals. Whether you're strong enough to accept that fact of nature or not.

Our society has been pussified over the last 100 years. I see you've swallow that indoctrination, hook, line and sinker.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-01-31   12:42:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Fred Mertz, GrandIsland (#7) (Edited)

I would have hunted every day until my heart took its last beat.

Killing 4-legged, unarmed creatures of gawd for pleasure? Figures.

Yet you regard horse racing as a harmless sport in which the animals are willing participants who thoroughly enjoy the thrill. You ignore the truth that behind the scenes lies a story of immense cruelty and suffering.

Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone… ~ John 8:7 Net Bible. .
A New York Times investigation documented that an average of 24 horses die at racetraiks in the U.S. and these deaths often times go unexamined. The bodies are shipped to rendering plants and landfills giving no pathologists a way to discover why the horses broke down.

In addition to this it was discovered that a staggering 10,000 race horses limp off to slaughter each year because they became too incapacitated to run any more.

In England, there are approximately 12,000 foals born into the racing industries each year, and only around 50 per cent go on to become racers. Horses who do not make the grade may be slaughtered for meat or repeatedly change hands in a downward spiral of neglect, while around 400 of those horses who do go on to race are raced to death every year.

It is common for race horses to develop serious racing-related illnesses. Bleeding lungs and gastric ulcers often develop while they are performing. Also, they are cruelly and unmercifully whipped in an attempt to spur them on to win. This is painful and makes them fearful and distracted.

Much of the racing industry and racing spectators would have us believe they love these horses.


People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) decided in 2013 to mount its own first-ever investigation from inside the industry. PETA sent an undercover representative to work in Asmussen’s stables in Churchill Downs, Ky., and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., for four months in the spring and summer of 2013. Armed with a secret camera, the investigator captured over seven hours of damning footage. PETA shared its video evidence, plus a 258-page report containing notes, medical documentation and input from veterinarians, with the New York Times. Convinced, the newspaper broke the story on Mar. 19, causing an uproar in the horse racing world.

Fred, you have no right to condemn anyone for “killing 4- legged, unarmed creatures of gawd for pleasure” … do you?

Gatlin  posted on  2015-01-31   13:03:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Gatlin (#9)

Fred, you have no right to condemn anyone for “killing 4- legged, unarmed creatures of gawd for pleasure” … do you?

Liberals tend to be so self important that they feel they can decide for everyone else, what's best.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-01-31   13:16:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Gatlin (#9)

Sad, sad video!

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Stoner  posted on  2015-01-31   13:23:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: GrandIsland (#10)

Fred, you have no right to condemn anyone for “killing 4- legged, unarmed creatures of gawd for pleasure” … do you?

Liberals tend to be so self important that they feel they can decide for everyone else, what's best.

Fred (I'm Happy Being Miserable) Mertz is a classic example of this.

I found research data that shows Right-wingers are happier, more generous to charities, less likely to commit suicide - and even hug their children more than those on the Left. They are also more honest, friendly and well-adjusted. I base this on the General Social Survey, America's premier social research database.

Gatlin  posted on  2015-01-31   13:41:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Stoner (#11)

I decided not to continue watching it, after a short time...

Gatlin  posted on  2015-01-31   13:42:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Gatlin (#12)

I found research data that shows Right-wingers are happier, more generous to charities, less likely to commit suicide - and even hug their children more than those on the Left. They are also more honest, friendly and well-adjusted. I base this on the General Social Survey, America's premier social research database.

Well, most liberals are fake. They only like to feed their sympathetic needs by spending someone else's money.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-01-31   13:46:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Gatlin (#13)

" I decided not to continue watching it, after a short time... "

As did I. I have seen many Tennessee Walkers abused, just to get them to pick up their feet high, strictly for show. So senseless!

It appears we have found a subject we agree on.

I just do not understand, nor agree with abuse of animals!

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Stoner  posted on  2015-01-31   15:16:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Stoner (#15)

It appears we have found a subject we agree on.

I just do not understand, nor agree with abuse of animals!

Absolutely!!!

Gatlin  posted on  2015-01-31   15:34:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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