Word: ebola
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...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...
...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...
...RECORD Berlin Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tiger rebels made progress at peace talks in Germany, even as monitors caught Tigers smuggling arms into northern Sri Lanka. Cuvette West Congolese officials said 16 people died of the incurable disease Ebola. The victims apparently contracted the virus from eating infected gorillas. Moscow President Pervez Musharraf became the first Pakistani leader in 33 years to travel to the Russian capital, where he held talks with President Vladimir Putin. Bogota A bomb ripped through a social club in the Colombian capital, killing at least 30 people and raising fears that leftist rebels...
...doing just that. They say that a protective nasal spray like the one described above could be a few years away. Coley Pharmaceutical Group, a U.S. firm working with both military agencies, says preclinical data show that its CpG drug protects mice against anthrax, certain strains of smallpox, the Ebola virus and other potential bioterror agents. Normally the body's immune cells detect pathogens, triggering protective measures after an infection takes hold. CpG mimics immune cells, causing the body to think it is infected before it actually is. The body's immune system is then at full strength when...
...Omen Birds may be able to carry and spread the deadly Ebola virus, according to U.S. researchers. The virus, which kills 70% of those afflicted, was found to have a similar protein structure to viruses carried by birds