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Article: EBOLA INFECTION? NO VACCINE, NO THERAPY, NO CURE! LATEST MODEL EBOLA VIRUS VACCINE RESCUES MONKEYS' LIVES; PEOPLEVERSION 'POSSIBLY' TWO YEARS OFF.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- August 7, 2003
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Byline: David N. Leff , Science Editor
Ebola virus inflicts viral hemorrhagic fever on humans. Despite years of intensive research, there is no preventive vaccine against Ebola virus, and no therapeutic treatment. Its mortality rate skirts 80 percent of people infected.
Ebola virus made the headlines in 1995, when a sudden devastating outbreak exploded in the east African town of Kikwit in Zaire (re- named Democratic Republic of Congo). It infected 315 people, of whom 243 died - including a number of health care workers. The Ebola virus was named for the Ebola River, which flows through the epicentric region of the epidemic. The latest outbreak ...