ebola spreading?

[Ed Rybicki]

> From:          J Ownbey <jownbey at cbrc.mgh.harvard.edu>
> Subject:       Re: ebola spreading?

> cmleonard at ccstat.mc.duke.edu wrote:
> >  I would like to see some discussion here concerning the search for >the primary vector of this strain.  Is it monkeys or cave bats, as was >suggested by Richard Preston? 
> 
> As far as I've heard/read they haven't been able to identify the vector even after taking many types of blood/tissue samples from various animals.
> Joanne

Dr Bob Swanepoel, of the Special Pathogens Unit of the South African 
National Inst for Virology in Jo'burg, said over the weekend on Sky 
TV News from Zaire, that maybe this time we would find out where it came
from.  He is in Zaire with a mobile lab flown in via Hercules from 
SA, to do serological work.  Who knows...

 ______________________________________________________
 |     Ed Rybicki, PhD      |  ed at molbiol.uct.ac.za   |
 |    Dept Microbiology     | University of Cape Town |
 | Private Bag, Rondebosch  |   7700, South Africa    |
 |   fax: x27-21-650 4023   | phone: x27-21-650-3265  |
 ------WWW URL: http://www.uct.ac.za/microbiology------
   
   "And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
      From the profit he's made on your dreams..."