A mutation cannot drastically affect virus behavior. The virus cannot change the tissues it infects or its mode of transmission through a mutation. If a mutation affects virus behavior at all, it usually makes the virus unable to propagate. The most important aspect of mutation is that it gives researchers a tool to use to track virus spread, since they look at how the mutation pattern changes across time and distance and can use that information to track the virus back to its origins. They can tell, for instance, if a new Ebola case is related to the current outbreak, or if it is a new outbreak, by looking at the mutations.
I am wondering if the virus hid for this long in her eyes or other fluid compartment in her body, or if she is suffering a complication related to tissue damage caused by the disease, which has only surfaced now although the disease is long gone.
“A mutation cannot drastically affect virus behavior. The virus cannot change the tissues it infects or its mode of transmission through a mutation. If a mutation affects virus behavior at all, it usually makes the virus unable to propagate.”
You have a source for that or at least some key words for a
search. I seem I have read something quite different when I was
reading an article about the bird flue a while back.
Nevermind. I found the CDC report that pretty much says what you
are saying.
I’ll put it up there as being about as accurate as the
administrations, quarterly jobs report, unemployment figures,
global warming predictions, NOAA and the Obama himself.