Posted on 08/11/2014 11:23:52 AM PDT by mojito
The Ebola virus that has killed scores of people in Guinea this year is a new strain — evidence that the disease did not spread there from outbreaks in some other African nations, scientists report.
"The source of the virus is still not known," but it was not imported from nearby countries, said Dr. Stephan Gunther of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany.
He led an international team of researchers who studied the genetics of the virus and reported results online Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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He is my second. Have no idea if the first is buried yet.
The Italian men do the teeth-knocking and their wives do the drinking? Is that what you are saying?
If it were weaponized and introduced intentionally, what better place to introduce it than a continent where it erupts from time to time and doesn’t draw much attention from the rest of the world.
That way it gets a foothold before the world starts to pay attention.
Date of report being April. Could that be the same strain the two US case have? With Dr. Brantly getting the new amazing magical never tried on humans before serum that vanished his rash and turned him from death’s door to almost perky within an hour? Hmmmm. Follow the money.
That’s something like what I was thinking. Also that the sanitation standards are by necessity lower, giving the disease some way to grow.
This is a new strain, but one that bears many similarities with the “Zaire” and “Gabon” forms of the virus, but has some fundamental differences:
“The EBOV in samples obtained from three patients
was completely sequenced with the use of conventional...techniques....”
“The three sequences, each 18,959 nucleotides in
length, were identical with the exception of a few
polymorphisms....”
“The Guinean EBOV strain showed 97% identity to EBOV strains from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon.”
I’m pretty sure this is the same strain.
Thanks Mojito. Because of you, learned something new today.
There’s no accounting for the Italians.
The “quotes” people tend to cite are the sensational, made-up ones. Literary license to sell books.
I disagree with the use of the term "fundamental" in that sentence. Not warranted.
And we still have morons traveling to and from the cesspool known as Africa.
Okay so you knew I would ask didn’t you.
You don’t like me.
You don’t like Italians.
You don’t like “mud people” still laughing
Who do you like?
Who are your people?
Who told you that?
I’m Irish, which means I hate myself, which further means I hate everybody equally.
Nah, if I had to pick, it would be the Jews - they are my favorites. They are smart, hot, funny (right up until someone pulls the trigger on them too), and they never quit.
I’m part ‘mud person’ - Sioux Indian, and Portuguese (honorary mud person).
A strawberry-blond Scot/Irish lass? Again, that’s hot. Very, very hot. (I just wouldn’t marry one, unless I was forced into it.)
Pinoys - love them too. They hate each other, but they are great people. Terrible tempers. Mud people after my own heart. Nobody is tougher or work harder (or smarter, really).
Aussies, not Kiwis(pretentious, self righteous anal-tracts).
Generally speaking, Mexicans. I love them. Nobody works harder and they love God and Family. Mexico? A cess pool.
I like the English too, but I don’t like what they’ve become.
I like the Japanese, now. What they were in 1930 was pretty awful.
I like Austrians, and the Dutch for the most part. You can have central Europe, China, India.
I love Koreans, and Chileans.
I married a Viking lass. 22 years and 3 kids the very hard way. A very good choice.
And Latvians. I like Latvians. Great people.
A different strain, by itself, is not very dramatic news.
Since there is no immunity to ebola, of any kind, it is unimportant as a factor. What matters:
A big drawback to ebola, as a disease, is that it is not infectious until symptoms are showing. It has an incubation period of between 2 and 21 days, and while that allows it to move around a lot, once symptoms show, the person will typically die within 10 days. And because they are incapacitated for half of that, this is what you see:
A person who looks like they have a bad case of the flu, staggering around and showing lots of symptoms. For just 5 days. So if you don’t want to get infected, stay away from people who are visibly sick.
RNA viruses, of which Ebola is one, tend to mutate rapidly. It is possible for two people to have slightly different variants of the virus even when infected from the same source.
My, what a lot of conspiracy theories among the responses in this thread.
The 3% difference between this clade of Ebola Zaire and the clade that appeared in the Congo is absolutely consistent with this virus being already established and circulating in an animal reservoir. So it’s been there a while, and this outbreak is the result of the first time a human has had contact with an infected reservoir animal.
A mutating genome isn't evolution? Sorry, try again. That's the definition of evolution.
Am not current regarding variants and mutations of this virus, so am learning. My appreciation for the info.
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