Ebola

[Giovanni Maga]

In article <1995May14.043311 at thorin.uthscsa.edu>, you wrote:


> > Here are some tidbits I haven't seen posted yet in this thread:
> 
> 1976  Sudan       284 cases      53% mortality
> 1976  Zaire       318 cases      88% mortality
> 1979  Sudan       "small"        65% mortality
> 1989  Reston, VA  monkeys        
> 1995  Zaire       unknown        unknown
> 1972,77,78  Zaire    isolated cases
> The 1989 Reston strain was similar to the 1976 Sudan strain.
>       (source: J.Clin.Path., 43:813).
> The 1995 Zaire strain is similar to the 1976 Zaire strain.
>       (source: NY Times, 5-12-95)
> The Reston strain infected four humans without causing illness.
> 

I am aware also of a case in 1967 (not 100% sure) in Germany of some lab
workers infected from african monkeys (caercopithecus I guess) used to
establish cell culture. It should be the first case reported of Ebola
infection and it led to the isolation of the Marburg strain. Unfortunately,
I do not have the reference (if any) of the original report, since the
source I got the information from is a textbook of clinical virology that
unfairly has no reference library. Do you have those ref. also? I would
greatly appreciate if you could forward them to me.
Thanks in advance. G.Maga, PhD
maga at vetbio.unizh.ch