ebola

[Always Learning]

In article <Pine.3.89.9502271322.B2045-0100000 at student-mail.jsu.edu>, st0109 at STUDENT-MAIL.JSU.EDU (Jackson Kang-M Lin) writes:
>
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>scary and needed for attention. But doesn't something else like all 
>those STD's need more attention? I just read about herpes simplex viruses 
>type I and II, for example, from books and this bio-internet that more 
>than 85% of adults in U.S have this virus, and once you contract the 
>virus, it will become your permanent "houseguest" and never leaves. So, Are 
>this type of STD (HSV I) and possibly serious neonatal infections actually 
>more scary than Ebola viruses? At least Ebola viruses are not one of the STD's? 
>

Ebola is an STD.  It moves/multiplies very VERY fast so I do not think that
one would be, "in the mood."  But if so, Ebloa attacks the reproductive glands
of males with a special vigor.

>Jackson
>
>P.S. How much is "The Coming Plague?" I plan to buy one, but having 
>trouble of locating one. I have heard it is a very hot book right now. 
>Must be!
>
The Coming Plague, Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance:
by Laurie Garrett. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; New York. $25.00 Hardcover
ISBN # 0-374-12646-1

Jim