Mutations of Ebola

[Sosha Tolstoi]

In article <c601591-1309950937170001 at 128.206.12.143>, c601591 at mizzou1.missouri.edu (Don Haut) says:
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>In article <4353of$im3 at vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, hamlet at ux7.cso.uiuc.edu (James
>J Hurlburt) wrote:
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>> I hope that I'm not mistaken but wasn't the version of Ebola that broke
>> in the lab monkeys in the United States airborn? At least in the book
>> "The Hot Zone" it mentioned that monkeys in different cages and in seprate
>> rooms were infecting each other. By dumb luck this new version of the virus
>> wasn't deadly to humans.
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>Ebola, it was speculated, aerosolated.  This form was named Reston, a
weaker Ebola strain.  Marbourg is another weaker strain.  Of course,
a virus will mutate.  If it kills too many hosts it defeats its own
purpose, survival.

The WHO section of the net offers several sites and some research data.

Regards,
Sosha