“Our study suggests that the Ebola virus is making forms of proteins previously undescribed,” said lead author Reed Shabman, PhD, an assistant professor at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md. Shabman was at Mount Sinai when the study was initiated. “Understanding the products of these viruses is critical to understanding how to target them.”
In addition, he said, proteins produced by the glycoprotein editing site are associated with virulence in animals, “so it’s of great interest to understand how that protein is made, and in as much detail as possible.”
“We infer that this probably contributes to how the virus grows in a person or an animal,” Basler said.
Difference in virility in how contagious the virus is in different phases of the disease could relate to this in particularity with the proteins produced for the shell of the virus. This would certainly explain the facts the Duncan’s family was fortunate enough to avoid the virus but the health workers at the end of his life were not so lucky.
"Difference[s] in virility in how contagious the virus is in different phases of the disease could relate to this in particularity with the proteins produced for the shell of the virus. This would certainly explain the facts the Duncan’s family was fortunate enough to avoid the virus but the health workers at the end of his life were not so lucky."