Michael Osterholm, director of the center for infectious disease research and policy at the University of Minnesota: Viruses like Ebola are notoriously sloppy in replicating, meaning the virus entering one person may be genetically different from the virus entering the next. The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented; there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past four months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years. Each new infection represents trillions of throws of the genetic dice” theblaze/stories/2014/09/12/the-ebola-possibility-that-virologists-are-afraid-to-say/
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