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To: exDemMom

Ebola, like other viruses, mutates constantly, nicht wahr?


112 posted on 10/02/2014 6:58:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ebola, like other viruses, mutates constantly, nicht wahr?

Yes.

Viruses are limited in how much they can mutate, since they have to keep their ability to bind the cell surface receptors that they use to infect, and to co-opt the cell machinery they use to replicate. However, within their limits, they mutate quite readily.

119 posted on 10/02/2014 7:12:02 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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