ebola...what I feared but hoped wouldnt happen.......

By Thomas Moore, Health and Science Correspondent

Scientists have confirmed that the Ebola virus is mutating - and could become more contagious.

Researchers at the Institute Pasteur in France say they have detected substantial changes to the genetic code of the virus.

Although they don't yet know what effect that will have on the epidemic, they fear the virus could spread from person to person more easily.

In previous Ebola outbreaks, the virus has only infected a few dozen people and died out within weeks.

But the current prolonged epidemic has given the virus time to pass through many more generations, in many more people, giving it greater opportunity to evolve.



From:- http://news.sky.com/story/1417240/mutating-ebola-could-become-more-contagious





This could be a game changer...the vaccines are still giving poor results

Time perhaps NOW to consider entry restrictions........

granted the chances of it getting loose and wreaking the kind of havoc we have seen abroad is still slim, but the odds have just gone the wrong way.....

I can think of nothing that reeks more of "big government" than telling people who pose no threat that they can't live peacefully on a certain chunk of land.

If we really want to protect the global population from ebola, we need to be flooding the stricken countries with capable physicians and other personnel who can help minimize the spread.