Scientists see risk of mutant airborne Ebola as remote

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Health workers bring woman suspected of having contracted Ebola virus to an ambulance in front of a crowd in Monrovia

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – The Ebola virus raging through West Africa is mutating rapidly as it tears a deadly path through cities, towns and villages, but the genetic changes are for now not giving it the ability to spread more easily. Concern that the virus could gain capability to transmit through the air – creating a nightmare scenario of the disease being able to spread like a flu pandemic, killing millions – was fuelled by a top infectious disease expert in the United States. …

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