Ok, so the CDC has confirmed..and other things!

[Don Haut]

> I *really* hate to encourage paranoia and all that (not least because I'm 
> already plenty scared shitless, thank you very much), but given the high 
> mutability of Ebola, is this even possible? Or is it fishy? I mean, has the 
> CDC and the army and anyone else who had samples of E. Zaire '76 checked 
> their inventory and security lately? 
> 
> Just hoping to God that some nut/terrorist/cult didn't get ideas from the 
> last six months' spate of Ebola books, movies, etc. and do something 
> unbelievably stupid-clever... ?
> 
> 
> Also-- have any of the current outbreak's identifiable victims recovered?
> 
> 
> Lisa, no expert, just a nervous layperson.

Before coming up with wild ideas about the rate of mutation of Filoviruses
and the "possibilities" please read H. Feldman et al "Molecualr Biology
and Evolution of Filoviruses"  Arch. Virol. 1993 (Suppl.) 7: 101 - 109. 
It should be in your library.  If you are going to post on this news
group, you might wish to at least attempt to understand the subject
matter.

DON

Don Haut  Wooster '88
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
University of Missouri-Columbia
C601591 at showme.missouri.edu