Spread of deadly Ebola virus...

Tyrion the Imp said:
It's a dumb virus. A smarter virus like AIDS takes years to kill its host, and thus spreads much much farther in its time. Ebola is good for nothing but generating scary news reports. Seriously, how can a virus that's killed maybe a few hundred people, all in poor African villages, keep on getting such huge news coverage? Do you have any idea of all the things that actually kill millions a year that get none at all?
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You post out of ignorance. Viruses are neither smart not stupid. Unlike you who is obviously stupid
 
Report: Ebola virus in Guinea is a new strain, not imported from other African countries

The Ebola virus that has killed scores of people in Guinea this year is a new strain — evidence that the disease did not spread there from outbreaks in some other African nations, scientists report.

"The source of the virus is still not known," but it was not imported from nearby countries, said Dr. Stephan Gunther of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany.

He led an international team of researchers who studied the genetics of the virus and reported results online Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The ongoing outbreak has caused panic and killed more than 120 people in West Africa, mostly in Guinea, according to the World Health Organization...


...Researchers think the Guinea and other strains evolved in parallel from a recent ancestor virus. The Guinea outbreak likely began last December or earlier and might have been smoldering for some time unrecognized. The investigation continues to try to identify "the presumed animal source," they write.
 
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