Plans to Combine the Measles and Ebola Vaccine

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Plans to Combine the Measles and Ebola Vaccine

Chris Carrington
Ready Nutrition

All viruses mutate, some easier than others. Ebola is an RNA virus, like influenza and these viruses have a high rate of mutation so the changes in Ebola were to some extent to be expected. What wasn’t expected was the speed of change and how it has changed.

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, France have said in an interview with the BBC that the first mutations occurred a mere 24 days after the outbreak started.


“We know the virus is changing quite a lot,” said human geneticist Dr Anavaj Sakuntabhai.

“That’s important for diagnosing (new cases) and for treatment. We need to know how the virus (is changing) to keep up with our enemy.”

“We’ve now seen several cases that don’t have any symptoms at all, asymptomatic cases,”

“These people may be the people who can spread the virus better, but we still don’t know that yet. A virus can change itself to less deadly, but more contagious and that’s something we are afraid of.”

Asymptomatic carriers are a group of people the medical profession dreads. These are people who can spread a virus in local communities and across international borders totally undetected. NONE of the measures set-up to stop Ebola victims boarding planes would detect these individuals. With no symptoms, they have no reason to believe that they are ill and, therefore, no reason to avoid international travel. They are the Typhoid Mary‘s of the modern day.

The Institute and some larger pharmaceutical companies have been working on a vaccine for Ebola for some months and one of these vaccines is a modification of a very widely used measles vaccine, the type that has failed to stop the Disneyland spread in the current Californian measles outbreak. The new vaccine would supposedly protect those vaccinated against both measles and Ebola.

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What could go wrong?

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The Ebola virus is MUTATING, and 'could become more contagious', warn scientists who first identified the outbreak

By Lizzie Parry for MailOnline

Scientists tracking the spread of the Ebola in West Africa have warned the virus is showing signs of mutating, and could become more contagious.

It was a team of researchers from the Institut Pasteur in France who first identified the outbreak in Guinea, in March last year.

Patient zero - the first person to be infected - has been identified as two-year-old Emile Ouamouno from the rural village of Meliandou.

He died four days after he fell ill with a sky-high fever and vomiting in December 2013.

Just weeks later his sister succumbed to the disease, followed by their mother and grandmother.

From there the virus spread, before the scientists at Institut Pasteur identified it as Ebola three months later after it was reported to the health authorities.

The team have since been tracing the virus' spread through Guinea, to establish if the disease could become more contagious.

They have started the process of examining hundreds of blood samples from Ebola patients in the West African nation where the first cases struck in December 2013.

Human geneticist Dr Anavaj Sakuntabhai, told the BBC: 'We know the virus is changing quite a lot.

'That's important for diagnosing and for treatment. We need to know how the virus (is changing) to keep up with our enemy.'

He told Radio 4's Today programme viruses have to 'fight a balance' between infecting people and spreading.

'We have seen several cases that don't have any symptoms at all when infected,' he said. 'These people may be the ones who could spread the virus better, we do not know yet.

'A virus can change from more deadly into less deadly but more contagious and that is something we are afraid of.'

Viruses do change over a period of time.

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