Ebola virus outbreak in Africa

dlynn at ASRR.ARSUSDA.GOV dlynn at ASRR.ARSUSDA.GOV
Fri May 12 06:34:08 EST 1995


On 11 May 1995 20:48:49 GMT mcdaniel at u.washington.edu (Henry McDaniel) wrote:

< The ironic thing about all of this is that the MOST dangerous
< disease known to man is freely rampaging through the whole

There can certainly be a valid argument against your opinion that AIDS is 
"the MOST dangerous disease".  It's been given a BL3 rating, the 
hemorrhagic fever viruses are BL4.  HIV is actually relatively hard to
contract compared with the filoviruses.

Dwight



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