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...organ after another--were Ebola-like, all right. But the locals needed expert help to make sure. The U.N. organization rushed a team to the scene and, reports Dr. David Heymann, head of the WHO's new Division for Emerging and other Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control (EMC), "in five days the Ebola diagnosis was confirmed, and the outbreak was nipped in the bud." The medical team had done its job by isolating the victims, providing health-care workers with basic sterile gear, like gowns and gloves, and staying on the scene until no new cases were evident...
...though, and the CDC and the WHO, along with such institutions as France's Pasteur Institute, are already stretched very thin. That is why health professionals are relying more and more on modern communications technology, including the Internet, to gather the information they need about disease outbreaks. Heymann's EMC already has its own page under the who Website, and an E-mail network connects research centers around the world with the WHO's headquarters and field offices. The CDC too has a home page, which includes the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and a Travelers' Health section...
...Robert E. Kirby, Chairman, Westinghouse Electric Corp.; William E. LaMothe, Chairman, Kellogg Co.; Sol M. Linowitz, Senior Partner, Coudert Bros.; William S. Litwin, President, Kero-Sun Inc.; Stewart G. Long, Vice President, Trans World Airlines Inc.; Henry Luce III, President, Henry Luce Foundation Inc.; Robert H. Malott, Chairman, EMC Corp.; Gerald C. Meyers, Chairman, American Motors Corp.; John J. Nevin, Chairman, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; Frank Pace Jr., President, International Executive Service Corps; Donald S. Perkins, Chairman, Jewel Companies Inc.; Paul C. Sheeline, Chairman, Inter-Continental Hotels Corp.; Forrest N. Shumway, Chairman, Signal Companies Inc.; John G. Smale, President, Procter...