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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  I totally agree that it "could" theoretically mutate...what I was trying to say is that the only thing we're lucky about is that ebola is in a family of viruses that isn't known to *easily* or readily mutate into airborne. So, a very tiny upside, if we can call it that  . If it does ever become airborne, we'd be in a world of crap, that's for sure. If it happened and we didn't have a treatment or a vaccine, it would basically be like the plague. Scary. |
Yes it would be awful and, while I don't like fear mongering, I do think people need to take this virus seriously.
Funny, though, that other one (enterovirus 68) is scarier right now imo and no one seems to be all that worried. I have to say that if I had young children, I would have a hard time not worrying myself sick over it.