I AM fairly SCARED!!!!

[chatski carl]

In article <MAILQUEUE-101.941101093128.384 at molbiol.uct.ac.za>,
RYBICKI, ED <ed at molbiol.uct.ac.za> wrote:
>> >is it harmless to them (the same way Ebola Reston kills monkeys, 
>but
>> 
>> There is no animal host for Ebola.  Ebola is not found in nature.
>
>Rubbish!!  According to an Honours student's essay just handed to 
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>me (A Jacobson, 1994), 
>
>"...Ebola virus, a member of the Filoviridae, burst from obscurity 
>with spectacular outbreaks of severe, haemorrhagic fever. It was 
>first associated with an outbreak of 318 cases and a case-fatality 
>rate of 90% in Zaire and caused 150 deaths among 250 cases in Sudan. 
>Smaller outbreaks continue to appear periodically, particularly in 
>East, Central and southern Africa. In 1989, a haemorrhagic disease 
>was recognized among cynomolgus macaques imported into the United 
>States from the Philippines. Strains of Ebola virus were isolated 
>from these monkeys. Serologic studies in the Philippines and 
>elsewhere in Southeast Asia indicated that Ebola virus is a 
>prevalent cause of infection among macaques (Manson 1989)."
>
>...and further:
>
>"...The mode of primary infection and the natural ecology of these 
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>viruses are unknown. Association with bats has been implicated 
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>directly in at least 2 episodes when individuals entered the same 
>bat-filled cave in Eastern Kenya. Ebola infections in Sudan in 1976 
>and 1979 occurred in workers of a cotton factory containing 
>thousands of bats in the roof. However, in all instances, study of 
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>antibody in bats failed to detect evidence of infection, and
>no virus was isolated form bat tissue."
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>
>Does not occur in nature?  Then where did it come from, pray?
>