“Whether by chance, mistake, or intent, there seems to be a new and not well understood mutation.”
freeper wastoute says that what has happened is a normal virus behavior, ‘attentuation’, rather than mutation. The virus has actually become less lethal but this has had the paradoxical effect of making it more dangerous.
When it was stronger it would kill its victims quickly before they had a chance to mingle and spread it around. Now the infected don’t die right away and they have time to get out of the jungle and into the big cities, or as we have seen onto a plane and to another continent.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3211374/posts?page=17#17
That is what I posted. I suppose the folks on TV are so used to lying with authority they aren’t saying this. OTOH, perhaps they are, they keep saying they have been watching “this strain”. Zaire Ebola.