Word: shope
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...infected Yale researcher who originally helped show that this was a brand-new virus. That is still almost all scientists know about it. Says Dr. Robert Shope, director of the Yale virus lab: "We're reasoning by analogy to other arenaviruses that Sabia has a rodent reservoir. Once the reservoir and transmission are understood, it should be possible to take measures to control the infection. This is our ultimate...
That is also the aim for the scores of other viruses that the Yale lab and a select few others in the U.S. receive constantly from around the world. Says Shope: "About 100 of the viruses we have can infect people, and of those, 10% to 20% can kill." But even if scientists find ways to deal with all of those, there will always be more. New viruses are continually leaping from animal populations, where they have circulated harmlessly for years, into humans, and the problem has only become worse as people have moved into formerly uninhabited areas...