Quote (xrmd @ Oct 14 2014 10:33pm)
Small half life as Lightman said.
Also my step-moms company developed a vaccine and is now shipping it to USA to distribute after removing the virus from each and every test subject in laboratories.
Ebola is an RNA virus meaning that it easily develops other "strains" as mutations. We know that RNA makes several "mistakes" when it multiplies therefore making a few different strains (think about other RNA viruses such as influenza). One vaccine may treat this particular strain of Ebola but will not be effective for everyone.
Their NT sequences are nearly identical though so I guess one vaccine COULD eliminate this strain of Ebola in general.
Disclaimer: THIS DOES NOT MEAN THE THE VIRUS MUTATES QUICKLY OR EVER WILL BECOME AIRBORNE. Modes of transmission generally do not change among viruses such as this and even if it DID it would definitely become weaker.
This post was edited by HoneyBadger on Oct 16 2014 12:22pm