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Article: EBOLA VIRUS LEAVES 7 DEAD IN GABON.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 13, 1996
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Byline: -- Newsday
The deadly Ebola virus has surfaced again -- for the fifth time in the last 1 1/2 years -- claiming seven lives so far in the equatorial African nation of Gabon.
World Health Organization officials confirmed rumors emanating from Africa on Friday, and an international team of scientists left the agency's Geneva headquarters Friday, bound for a remote rain forest area near the town of Booue, in central Gabon.
Blood and tissue samples taken from the seven victims -- and from three ailing patients presumed to have Ebola and 24 other people with whom they ...