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Fast forward to February 1996, when officials at the World Health Organization's Geneva headquarters got word of a possible Ebola-virus outbreak in the remote village of Mayibout, Gabon. It is hard to imagine a more frightening report: ever since the first known outbreak in 1976, the virulent Ebola virus has been near the top of every Central African's list of the worst ways to die. With the 1994 publication of the best seller The Hot Zone, that fear had gone global. The symptoms--catastrophic hemorrhaging, bloody diarrhea and the literal disintegration of one organ after another--were...
WHEN TWO CHILDREN FROM THE remote village of Mayibout, in Gabon, discovered a dead chimpanzee lying in the undergrowth near their home a few weeks ago, they were delighted. Bush meat is a delicacy throughout the rain forests of central Africa, and chimps are particularly prized for their size and scarcity. Villagers helped carry the primate back to Mayibout, where it was skinned, cooked and eaten. There the festivities ended. Within a week, nearly all those who had prepared the animal for the pot had fallen ill with a high fever. Some began bleeding from the eyes and mouth...
...dark," he says. Meanwhile, officials in Gabon are playing it safe. Last week they warned villagers not to touch dead animals found in the forest or kill any that are "behaving strangely." Until researchers know what they're dealing with, that's probably prudent. As the villagers of Mayibout now know too well, Ebola seldom gives victims a second chance...
...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...
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