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Article: EBOLA VIRUS SPAWNS AN EPIDEMIC OF MYTHS.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 15, 1995
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Byline: JOHN SCHWARTZ Washington Post
Chris Shahin has Ebola fever. The National Park Service employee isn't sick; he simply can't get enough information on the Ebola virus, which he first learned about in ``The Hot Zone,'' Richard Preston's book about a close call with the Ebola virus in a Reston building in 1989.
The book worked its way from person to person in Shahin's office, virus-like, earlier this year, making ``The Hot Zone'' the hottest topic of conversation there for weeks.
When a new outbreak of the deadly virus was reported last week in Zaire, the office members' fascination reached new heights: They sought out newspaper ...