The ebola virus is a master of mutation. If it hooks up with something from a flu virus and they exchange phone numbers, it could actually change the way it is transmitted.
Actually Ebola is actually not a “master of mutation”, at least not that we know of so far. It has been rather stable since first detected around 1976 and has not undergone any significant mutations in the same way that say the various strains of influenza viruses does.
As far as viruses go, Ebola is from what I understand, more along the lines of Hepatitis and HIV and neither of those has mutated to any great degree overtime and none of them have changed their mode of transmission nor have they ever “hooked up” with other viruses, despite many more years and many, many thousands of people having been infected than Ebola and among people who have contracted and or been exposed to other viruses.
The common cold and influenza virus are very prone to mutations (and that is why you can catch a common cold more than once during your lifetime and why there is an annual flu vaccine and not a “one and done” vaccine for influenza unlike vaccines for other viruses like Measles that are not prone to mutations.
If influenza could so easily “hook up” and “exchange phone numbers” (seemingly because all viruses get very horny and will indiscriminately hook up with other viruses at the human body nightclub during “last call” – you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here”) with other non-related viruses, we’d already have seen their illegitimate one night stand babies like “influmeasles”, “tubercuenza”, “influrabies”, “polioenza”…..
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