Word: ebola
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Mostly it's the song. Can't Get You Out of My Head, written by former teen queen Cathy Dennis, is one of those weird pop miracles that pile on the hooks and dare you not to listen--it's catchier than Ebola. The rest of Fever is not unlistenable, just unremarkable...
...that are par for the action-hero course. One thing’s for sure: Arnold always comes back. He takes a licking and keeps on kicking. Everything is fodder for this one-man Bosnia: He blasts his way to salvation, leaving more corpses in his wake than an Ebola epidemic. Villains of all stripes are dispatched with terse one-liners. “Consider that a divorce,” he grunts as he blows away Sharon Stone in Total Recall. Talk is for the weak; Arnold acts. And punches and shoots and pulverizes. Like an Old Testament...
...such scrutiny? Because USAMRIID handles the deadliest pathogens known to man, including Ebola, Marburg virus, Rift Valley fever--and, of course, anthrax. It was at Fort Detrick that the U.S. stockpile of biological weapons was manufactured in the 1960s, and at USAMRIID that research into deadly germs was concentrated for the next three decades...
...Hartford Courant revealed last week that some 27 samples of anthrax, Ebola and other pathogens were missing during a 1992 inventory at USAMRIID. According to several former employees and at least one current one--as well as internal Army documents released in response to a 1998 lawsuit and first made public in December--it was surprisingly easy for employees to get hold of highly infectious bacteria. Walking out with some in your pocket would have been no problem...
...early to know whether this strategy will work against HIV, but it is already working against another deadly virus. Ebola, though it has claimed far fewer victims than HIV, has enormous potential for devastation. There is no cure or vaccine for it--but in a recent trial, Nabel's group has shown that DNA priming can protect monkeys from Ebola...