'Real risk' Ebola virus will mutate to become an AIRBORNE disease, expert warns 

• Dr Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota said virologists are privately concerned the deadly virus could mutate
• Currently Ebola can only be transmitted through close contact with a victim's bodily fluids, including blood, vomit and sweat
• Dr Osterholm warns if the virus develops it could be transmissible via air
• But chair of the Health Protection Agency in the UK Professor David Heymann said it is 'impossible' for scientists to predict any mutation
• He said not enough is known about genetics to know if the virus will be able to develop to attach to the receptors in the respiratory system
• So far more than 2,000 people have died in the current outbreak 
• Oxford University scientists today revealed a map showing 15 countries and 22 million people are at risk  

By Lizzie Parry for MailOnline

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