Word: ebola
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FOUND. A body carrying the identification of DON WILEY, 57, Harvard molecular biologist and researcher of deadly viruses like Ebola, who had been missing since Nov. 16; in the Mississippi River in Vidalia, La. Wiley had been attending a meeting in Memphis, Tenn...
...GABON Ebola Is Back Authorities cordoned off a remote region along the border between Gabon and the Republic of Congo after confirming an outbreak of Ebola disease. Fifteen people have died so far from the hemorrhagic fever, for which there is no known cure. The virus is believed to have spread from Gabon to the Congo after an infected woman fled to a village across the border with her baby. Both mother and child later died...
...wasn’t working with the Ebola virus in his lab,” said Gregory L. Verdine, a professor of chemistry. “You could think of 100 other people whom it would make more sense [for bioterrorists] to kidnap...
Strominger and Verdine both emphasize that Wiley’s work has focused on isolated proteins from viruses such as Ebola and HIV—but the professor did not grow live strains...
...worked on a protein from Ebola viruses—he didn’t grow the virus,” Strominger said...