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...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...
...even without high-tech delivery systems, a single suicidal terrorist spraying a few drops of smallpox virus--or a liquid solution of Ebola or even plague--in a crowded mall or into the ventilation system of a large building could cause untold harm...
...bombings. Aid workers estimated that they would have to provide 55,000 tons a month to feed all 6 million people thought to be in need. Another threat to the refugees appeared in the Pakistan border town of Quetta, where 75 people have caught Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, an Ebola-like disease that causes victims to bleed to death from the body's orifices. Seemingly anxious to reduce...
...doesn't take an exotic virus like Ebola to transform the U.S. into a hot zone. A single case of smallpox could put the entire nation at risk. The smallpox virus is highly contagious and would spread quickly because Americans are not vaccinated. Routine inoculations were halted in 1972. People vaccinated before 1972 lost most of their immunity within 10 years...