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Article: HOW VIRUSES BECOME ONE WITH UNIVERSE IN MEMBRANE FUSION, EBOLA HAS NOVEL WAY TO SKIN CAT.
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- BIOWORLD Today
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- April 18, 2005
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Byline: Anette Breindl, Science Editor
In a twisted sense, the reason Ebola isn't even more of a threat is because it is so severe.
The virus, which causes hemorrhagic fever, has a quick onset, a 50 percent to 90 percent fatality rate and neither prevention nor cure. While all of that is bad news for those that contract it, it is probably also part of what has kept outbreaks localized.
Most of those outbreaks have occurred in Central Africa. But the Marburg virus, a cousin to Ebola, was named after the town in which the first outbreak occurred - a central German university village in which several researchers died in 1967 after handling ...