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by salzberg789 5869 days ago
Actually there are over 100 strains of cold viruses, many of which were completely sequenced and reported in a paper in Science last year.

But as to why this group of scientists chose Ebola: they have been working on Ebola for over 20 years, so they made that choice long ago. Every human virus has a scientific community of experts who study it.