new Ebola cases in Zaire

[Ed Rybicki]

Forwarded by Ed Rybicki, ed at molbiol.uct.ac.za

> The Electronic Telegraph 10 May 1995 WORLD NEWS
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> [[World News]]
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> Killer virus city under quarantine
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> By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
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> A CITY of 600,000 in Zaire was placed under quarantine yesterday after
> more than 100 people died of an illness that one official blamed on
> the Ebola virus, an organism that can kill up to 90 per cent of people
> it infects.
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> The victims in Kikwit, 375 miles east of the capital, Kinshasa,
> include two doctors and four Italian missionaries. Dr Muyembe Tamfun,
> a microbiologist and consultant to the World Health Organisation,
> blamed the Ebola virus for the outbreak that began in mid-April.
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> The Ebola virus attacks organs in the body, which jam with congealed
> blood and then disintegrate while surrounding tissue bleeds
> uncontrollably. In 90 per cent of cases, delirium and death follow
> within days.
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> Outbreak, the film about the outbreak of a deadly tropical virus,
> starring Dustin Hoffman, is based on the true story of an Ebola
> outbreak in the laboratories of a federal primate quarantine unit in
> Washington.
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