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Article: On the trail of Ebola // - Dr. Pierre Formenty
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 17, 1996
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TAI FOREST, Ivory Coast Dawn has barely broken when Jonas Tahou
enters the forest, trousers stuffed into knee-high rubber boots that
sink in the mud as he marches silently through the trees and tangled
vines.
Somewhere in this sweltering jungle, in the deep green thicket
that blocks the sun and swallows up Tahou's slender form, lives a
killer rarely seen but always present, one that prowled the forest
perhaps thousands of years before emerging 20 years ago to earn the
name Ebola.
Two decades after the first known outbreak of the virus and 18
months after its deadly resurgence in the Zairian city of Kikwit, a
fledgling international effort is under way in this remote rain
forest to track ...