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salzberg789
16y ago
Actually there are over 100 strains of cold viruses, many of which were completely sequenced and reported in a paper in Science last year. But as to why this group of scientists chose Ebola: they have been working on Ebola for over 20 years
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salzberg789
16y ago
You shouldn't speculate without doing a bit of homework first. The Ebola virus is reported to have a mutation rate that is approximately 100 times slower than the influenza virus, making it more like other human viruses, which also tend to