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Fjolsvith on Sept 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ebola death toll rises to at least 2,296: WHO

A really good book that predicted this outbreak back in 1994 is called "The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance" by Laurie Garrett. She actually has an excellent chapter on the Ebola virus and explained how this disease is so virulent. Ebola mutates very rapidly.

dredmorbius on Sept 10, 2014 [–]

Good book, but no, the mutation rate isn't particularly high for Ebola.

Fjolsvith on Sept 19, 2014 | [–]

I believe this refutes your statement:

http://www.ibtimes.com/origin-ebola-outbreak-may-be-bat-viru...

300 mutations since May?

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