{"id":48130,"date":"2015-01-29T19:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/time_the_ebola_virus_is_mutating_say_scientists\/"},"modified":"2015-01-29T19:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T19:00:32","slug":"time_the_ebola_virus_is_mutating_say_scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48130","title":{"rendered":"(Time) The Ebola Virus Is Mutating, Say Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at a French research institute say the Ebola virus has mutated and they are studying whether it may have become more contagious.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Institut Pasteur are analyzing hundreds of blood samples from Guinean Ebola patients in an effort to determine if the new variation poses a higher risk of transmission, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve now seen several cases that don\u2019t have any symptoms at all, asymptomatic cases,\u201d\u009d said human geneticist Dr. Anavaj Sakuntabhai. \u201cThese people may be the people who can spread the virus better, but we still don\u2019t know that yet. A virus can change itself to less deadly, but more contagious and that\u2019s something we are afraid of.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3687240\/ebola-disease-health-vaccine-guinea\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at a French research institute say the Ebola virus has mutated and they are studying whether it may have become more contagious. Researchers at the Institut Pasteur are analyzing hundreds of blood samples from Guinean Ebola patients in an<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48130\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,202,104,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-health-medicine","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}