Before the 2014 outbreak in West Africa, Ebola was long thought to be a virus that primarily impacted bats. “This receptor-binding domain of the virus has been the same since the first Ebola outbreak in 1976,” Andersen said in the news release. The sheer number of Ebola cases during the epidemic made possible spotting such a mutation in humans, they said. While researchers plan to study other possible mutations during the recent outbreak, they noted GP-A82V will be eradicated once all Ebola cases with the mutation disappear. “We don’t know how these findings translate to Ebola virus infection of complicated organisms, including humans,” Grubaugh said in the release.

Source: Fox News November 03, 2016 18:33 UTC