`` I ca n't imagine anything in my career -- and this includes HIV -- that would be more devastating to the world than a respiratory transmissible Ebola virus . '' Experts fear that Ebola will mutate and become spreadable via smell or touch . It is an RNA virus , meaning every time it copies itself , it mutates . Most mutations change nothing , but some mutations change the way the virus behaves .
Experts fear that Ebola will mutate and become spreadable via smell or touch . It is an RNA virus , meaning every time it copies itself , it mutates . Most mutations change nothing , but some mutations change the way the virus behaves .