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The thing is Ebola is evolved to have a stable impact on its host population, which is the common fruit bat. We're just collateral damage. So mutating for air
by ocschwar 8y ago
The thing is Ebola is evolved to have a stable impact on its host population, which is the common fruit bat.
We're just collateral damage.
So mutating for airborne transmission among humans is just not on the evolutionary agenda here.
- ridgeguy 8y ago>So mutating for airborne transmission among humans is just not on the evolutionary agenda here. Airborne transmission isn't an evolutionary agenda item. It's an evolutionary event with a non-zero probability of occurring, so far as we know. Evolution is a great mechanism based in part on the aphorism, "If it can happen, it will".