Word: ebola
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...Boston area also hopes to net a top-security “Level-4” research center, where more dangerous agents such as the Ebola virus could be studied. Boston University is in the running for a $1.6 billion government grant to fund the facility, which Kasper said would aid the new biodefense center in its research...
...Epicyte's spotless laboratory, Hiatt is taking no chances. Tiny tobacco leaves injected with herpes-antibody genes fill the incubators--a backup, he says, in case corn is outlawed. And the company is branching out, developing plant-grown antibodies to fight respiratory syncytial virus, treat Alzheimer's, battle weaponized Ebola and even attack sperm--a kind of biopharm birth control...
...than 300 known SARS deaths so far, the worldwide toll is tiny compared with, say, the 3 million people who died of AIDS last year. But if SARS continues to spread, its numbers could skyrocket. Its overall death rate of about 6% is far lower than that of AIDS, Ebola or malaria, but if enough people catch the illness, even a low rate could cause a catastrophe. The Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-19 had a death rate of less than 3%, but so many people became infected that it killed more than 20 million people in just 18 months...
...Most alarming, though, is the rising fatality rate. During SARS' international onset some two months ago, when doctors had only a handful of cases to examine, the mortality rate was thought to be about 5%?scary, but not exactly on the scale of Ebola. What's more, those most at risk were typically the elderly and the chronically ill. But as the cases have piled up, so have the fatalities, including healthier individuals in their late 20s or early 30s. In Vietnam the death rate is around 8%, Singapore at nearly 12% and Toronto 13.5%. In Hong Kong, where baffled...
...seems, was an obvious next step for the show’s producers. FM’s confidential sources high within the show’s internal party structure partly refute this claim, however, alleging that only after much heated debate did a lesbian kiss barely edge out an Ebola outbreak as the show’s next periodic extraordinary dramatic twist...