Ebola ?Tai?

S. M. Fitzgerald Cyberiot at ix.netcom.com
Sat May 20 22:45:17 EST 1995


Trust y'all have heard that the strain of Ebola the Swiss researcher
picked up in April is yet another mutation of Ebola.

Don't know if the new strain has been officially christened; until it
is, I'm calling it Ebola Tai, in keeping with the tradition of naming a
virus after its locus of discovery.

Review:  A Swiss researcher working in Africa's Ivory 
Coast contracted a variant of Ebola in April after performing a
necropsy on a chimp.  She was airlifted to a hospital in Europe and
survived.  French scientists identified the virus as a new variant of
Ebola.

All best,
S. M. Fitzgerald
Cyberiot at ix.netcom.com
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