Ebola is mutating

Kevin McSpadden has a Time article about Ebola:

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 effort to determine if the new variation poses a higher risk of transmission, according to the BBC.
“We’ve now seen several cases that don’t have any symptoms at all, asymptomatic cases,” said human geneticist Dr. Anavaj Sakuntabhai. “These people may be the people who can spread the virus better, but we still don’t know that yet. A virus can change itself to less deadly, but more contagious form, and that’s something we are afraid of.”
Although virus mutations are common, researchers are concerned that Ebola could eventually morph into an airborne disease if given enough time.
However, there is no evidence to suggest this has happened yet, and the virus is still spread only via direct contact with an infected person.
The Institut Pasteur, which first pinpointed the current Ebola outbreak in March of 2014, is hoping that two vaccines they are developing will reach human trials by the end of the year. Current figures indicate nearly nine thousand of some twenty-two thousand cases across Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone— around forty percent— have been fatal.

Rico says maybe, if we're lucky, it'll mutate to the point where it's no longer dangerous to humans...