West Africa Ebola strain mutated only slightly more than previous outbreaks: British study
by Staff from Outbreak News Today on (#BZK0)
The Ebola virus responsible for the outbreak in West Africa mutated at a similar rate to previous outbreaks, according to a new international study led by Public Health England (PHE) and published 18 June 2015 in Nature. Early in the outbreak, research suggested the virus' mutation rate was twice that of previous Ebola outbreaks. However, ["]