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Can someone post the one word tl;dr to help others decide whether this article is worth reading or not? I'm getting tired of these clickbait questions: has ebo

Can someone post the one word tl;dr to help others decide whether this article is worth reading or not? I'm getting tired of these clickbait questions: has ebola's virulence and efficacy increased, or not? Because if it has, that title should be "Ebola is evolving into a deadlier virus", and that's entirely worth clicking through for. But if it hasn't, this is just clickbait and there are many, many more articles getting published on the web that also require time to read, without wasting time on this one.

nostrademons 7y ago
tl;dr: Viruses mutate to become more contagious. There's some circumstantial evidence this may have happened in the 2013/2014 West African Ebola outbreak. The Kivu outbreak has ~600 hosts in which the virus is mutating right now. The article doesn't address lethality at all. (IMHO, all of the useful information in the article is in the first sentence of the tl;dr.)