Hybrid Virus 101 - Lassa Virus-Like Particles And Methods of Production Thereof & Human Ebola Virus Species and Compositions and Methods Thereof

Rates of genetic change are one one-hundredth as fast as influenza A in humans, but on the same magnitude as those of hepatitis B. Extrapolating backwards using these rates indicates Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus diverged several thousand years ago.[15] However, paleoviruses (genomic fossils) of filoviruses (Filoviridae) found in mammals indicate that the family itself is at least tens of millions of years old.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
[link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Unexpected viral 'fossils' found in vertebrate genomes
In a recent study, a team of researchers found that human and other vertebrate genomes also contain many ancient sequences from Ebola/Marburgviruses and Bornaviruses -- two deadly virus families.
[link to www.sciencedaily.com]

Molecular evolutionary analyses for Ebola and Marburg viruses were conducted with the aim of elucidating evolutionary features of these viruses. In particular, the rate of nonsynonymous substitutions for the glycoprotein gene of Ebola virus was estimated to be, on the average, 3.6 x 10(-5) per site per year. Marburg virus was also suggested to be evolving at a similar rate. Those rates were a hundred times slower than those of retroviruses and human influenza A virus, but were of the same order of magnitude as that of the hepatitis B virus. When these rates were applied to the degree of sequence divergence, the divergence time between Ebola and Marburg viruses was estimated to be more than several thousand years ago. Moreover, most of the nucleotide substitutions were transitions and synonymous for Marburg virus. This suggests that purifying selection has operated on Marburg virus during evolution.
[link to mbe.oxfordjournals.org]

What this current Ebola strain did in the past year would be equal to AIDS becaming airborne with 100x the mortality rate, with added drug-resistance, shit it would probably even glow for fuck sakes... The jist is this current Ebola strain did NOT "evolve" naturally!

Last Edited by TruthNow88 on 08/06/2014 10:37 PM

Thank you 88 for the hard work in this research.

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Lassa Fever Virus has historically been the biological warfare playground of Soviet Union biological warfare specialists, no?

Great Work!