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...doxycycline. Of the four who died, two were already seriously ill. And one, a 44-year-old man, didn't get the right treatment in time. Researchers fear that many more cases will turn up. "This disease could be as big as Lyme disease," says Dr. Darland Fish, an epidemiologist at Yale who in 1994 helped isolate the bacterium that causes hge. "I expect we'll see hundreds, if not thousands, of cases in the Northeast...
...have been exposed to a contaminated blood sample, but the ultimate origin of Ebola remains a mystery. Scientists suspect that it has probably circulated in wild animals such as rodents for years, and only makes the jump into humans when the two populations come into contact. Observes Yale epidemiologist Dr. Robert Ryder: "These viruses basically say to man, 'You stick to your territory and I'll stick to mine.' But then man begins to encroach on the habitat of the viruses...
...takes time to make a diagnosis," Dr. Paul E. Kilgore, a medical epidemiologist for the CDC, said in the University statement...
Some reporters highlighted every possible flaw in the study, prompting epidemiologist Janet Daling of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle to defend her team's work. She pointed out that the investigation followed 1,800 women over a seven-year period, making it one of the largest studies ever to examine the relationship between abortion and cancer. "I'm absolutely appalled that politics is entering into the science of this study," the researcher complains. "No one is getting any of the correct information out to the public...
...develop new drugs and get information to the public would be enormously expensive. But the price of doing nothing may be measured in millions of lost lives. Doctors are still hopeful but no longer overconfident. "I do believe that we're intelligent enough to keep ahead of things," says epidemiologist Shope. Nonetheless, neither he nor any of his colleagues will ever again be foolish enough to declare victory in the war against the microbes...