Ebola virus is mutating fast

Ebola virus reveal more than 300 genetic changes in the virus as it leapt from person to person. Researchers observed that the changes could blunt the effectiveness of diagnostic tests and experimental treatments. The findings suggest the virus is mutating quickly and in ways that could affect current diagnostics and future vaccines and treatments. It was observed that massive study of samples from 78 people in Sierra Leone, all of whose infections could be traced to a faith healer whose claims of a cure attracted Ebola patients from Guinea. Thus, Ebola vaccine, which was just fast-tracked to begin clinical trials, or the antibody drug ZMapp, being developed by scientists.