Word: ebola
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could have been horrific. To triumph in that war, the cult built a series of munitions factories within its complex at the foot of Mount Fuji. Aum researchers were trying to develop germ weapons -- including the Ebola virus -- and an assembly line was about to produce automatic rifles. Behind one building's false walls was a $700,000 lab able to turn out 60 to 80 kg a month of the nerve gas sarin -- enough to kill 6 million to 8 million people. One plan called for releasing the sarin over Tokyo from 1.65-m-long remote-controlled helicopters. Asahara...
...helped take care of the sick family. Then he died. She buried his body, but the mattress where he lay sick is still in the house. Dr. David Heyman of the World Health Organization listens to her story, and his heart sinks. He knows as much about the lethal Ebola virus as anyone alive; he was part of the team that investigated the first recorded outbreak, also in Zaire, two decades ago. Now he is leading the international brigade that has come to the city of Kikwit to battle the new emergency. "The virus is still loose...
...earlier at the Kikwit 2 maternity hospital, they realized the crisis was worse than they had imagined. "It's a huge epidemic," Heyman says of the previously unrecorded cases, "and it's got nothing to do with the main hospital." By week's end who doctors had counted 97 Ebola deaths, and the toll seemed certain to rise much higher. The only good news was that the disease had not yet spread-as far as anyone could tell-to the 4 million people of Kinshasa, 250 miles to the west...
...EBOLA DEATH TOLL RISES...
Zairian health officials said 97 people have died from the Ebola virus so far. One of the country's leading virologists, Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfun, who helped identify the virus in 1976, criticized the government's quarantines and roadblocks as ineffective. On Saturday the quarantine on the Kikwit region was officially lifted...