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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...
...causing the deaths of two children. Atsuzawa's students died in 1990 after he failed to decontaminate well water infected with the deadly 0157 E.coli bacteria, even after public health workers warned him about the problem. The sentence comes at a time when Japan is suffering through a new outbreak of the same bacteria, this time affecting mostly children. Seven are dead, and more than 8,700 are sick after E.coli contaminated lunches showed up in Sakai, about 300 miles west of Tokyo. Now, after taking some time to understand the seriousness of the disease, tense federal health officials...
ATLANTA: Looks like strawberries are off the hook. Contaminated raspberries from Guatemala appear to have caused this spring's outbreak of cyclospora, the intestinal illnesses that infected some 850 people in the United States and Canada, federal health officials said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that when investigators traced 21 cases back to their source, they identified raspberries grown in some regions of Guatemala as the culprit. The fruits were contaminated with microscopic parasite that infects the small intestine and causes watery diarrhea. Antibiotics cure the infection, but diarrhea and other symptoms can last weeks...
...Atlantic City, has been trying to revive the sport in New York City. After not holding any professional fights between March 6, 1993 and December 15, 1995, the Garden has slowly begun to regain its place in boxing. However, that is all expected to change following Thursday's outbreak. -- Josh Dubow
Humans often make matters worse for themselves by the changes they make in their local environments. Unusually warm waters played an important role in the cholera epidemic that hit Latin America in 1991, but the outbreak was also exacerbated by sewage poured into the waters off Asia and Latin America, the destruction of pollution-filtering mangroves in the Bay of Bengal and overcrowding in the cities...