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...Ebola had struck again. For the third time in 12 months, one of the deadliest diseases known has emerged from the forests of Africa. The outbreak underscores how frighteningly common Ebola is on the continent. But it also marks a new chapter in a medical detective story. In a matter of days, World Health Organization officials and local experts made a nine-hour river trip to the inland village, both to help contain the epidemic and to learn more about the virus that causes it. "If we can understand how the virus is transmitted from the wild, we might...
MAYIBOUT, GABON: The Ebola virus, cause of the world's deadliest known disease, has killed 13 and infected as many as 14 others in a remote villiage in Gabon. The villagers of Mayibout caught the deadly disease after eating meat from a dead chimpanzee found in the jungle. The World Health Organization has a team investigating the area, and the Gabonian goverment is trying to educate the population about the disease. Their efforts may be in vain, however. The Ebola virus has no cure, and painfully kills 80 to 90 percent of its victims, causing massive bleeding, liquifying their internal...
...tissues from animals could someday unleash a medical disaster. The danger is that patients could receive a previously unknown microbe along with their transplants. When viruses or bacteria have made the jump from animals to humans in the past, they have often proved exceedingly virulent: HIV, which causes AIDS; Ebola virus; and hantavirus are all chilling precedents. In a worst-case scenario, such transplants could introduce humanity to a plague that would make all of those look tame. "This is a serious mistake," says Jonathan Allan, a virologist at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, Texas...
...REAL HOT ZONE In a grisly coincidence, last spring's plague movie Outbreak, about an Ebola-like virus hitting a California town, was echoed by a real-life outbreak of the dread virus in Zaire. Dormant for 16 years, the disease swept through the Central African country, causing gruesome hemorrhagic fevers and killing at least 244 people (many of them health-care workers) before going underground again. At year's end, Ebola resurfaced in western Africa, this time in the Ivory Coast and possibly Liberia...
...title fool you. "Fat Men in Skirts" conjures up a vision of the worst of current theatrical comedy, that combination of self-conscious cuteness and sitcom timing that seems to have migrated, Ebola-like, from Burbank to Broadway. But while Nicky Silver gives in too often to the temptation of cheap laughs, topical references and ironic mugging, the play is ultimately redeemed from its worst moments by a clever and genuinely surprising treatment of sexuality and its most famous pitfall, the Oedipus complex...