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Which DNA mutation of ebola does this vaccination counter?


6 posted on 09/06/2014 6:02:52 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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Which DNA mutation of ebola does this vaccination counter?

Ebola is an RNA virus and has no DNA.

This vaccine is against the Zaire strain of Ebola. It should cover the West African variants of the virus as well as the Congo variants used to develop it.

For all we've heard about the mutations, there really are not very many of them, those that exist are within the normal variability of virus that we expect, and the mutations affected the genetic material more than the structure of the virus. So the vaccine, if it performs well in testing, should be effective.

23 posted on 09/08/2014 3:53:42 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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