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In emotional control  -  25 Mar 2008
Messenger News,BACK HOME: Dr Malcolm Hugo has recently returned from counselling victims of the Ebola virus in Uganda. Pic: Steve Coates. "You have to go into work mode,

So Like Us, They Can Even Be Murdered  -  25 Mar 2008
The Ledger,And the deadly Ebola virus, which is transmitted by contact with body fluids, is rapidly fatal and can wipe out a gorilla family quickly.

Riding The Wave: Reconciling The Roles Of Disease And Climate ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Medical News Today (press release),Once introduced, diseases may spread quickly through new areas infecting naive host populations, such as has been documented in Ebola virus in African

New Technique Will Speed The Development Of Vaccines  -  25 Mar 2008
Medical News Today (press release),...working on vaccines against pathogens that are highly contagious or especially deadly, such as the Ebola virus and the bacterium that causes anthrax.

Trying to curb Ebola, one protein at a time  -  Mar 20, 2008
Daily Pennsylvanian,Penn scientists at the School of Veterinary Medicine recently discovered a protein that slows the spread of the Ebola virus.

Protein Inhibits Ebola From Reaching Out To Infect Neighboring Cells  -  Mar 4, 2008
Science Daily (press release)4, 2008) — Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have identified a protein, ISG15, that inhibits the Ebola virus from

The Ebola virus finally reveals its hand  -  Mar 4, 2008
Afriqu'Echos Magazine,There is a great deal at stake here as until now the Ebola virus could only be handled in type P4 maximum security laboratories.

Safe Ebola Virus  -  Feb 27, 2008
The Future of ThingsScientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have successfully mutated the Ebola virus to create a safe virus strain that can reproduce only in

Dr. Howard Fields to Join NanoViricides as Vice-President of Virology  -  Mar 24, 2008
Business Wire (press release),The Company is developing drugs against a number of viral diseases including H5N1 bird flu, seasonal influenza, HIV, hepatitis C, rabies, Ebola virus,

Ugandan health experts warn of mutating Ebola virus  -  Feb 25, 2008
ReliefWeb (press release),There was evidence that they had been exposed to the Ebola virus but they have never been sick," she said flanked by Sam Okware, the chairman national force

Uganda: Protect the Environment to Prevent Ebola  -  Mar 6, 2008
AllAfrica.com,...of the Ebola outbreak areas suggests that the reservoir and the transmission cycle of the Ebola virus are closely linked to the rainforest ecosystem.

23 days to live  -  Mar 22, 2008
Malaysia Star,L happens to meet them while researching a deadly virus that is 10 times more infectious than the Ebola virus. Pursued by the bioterrorism group,

Major breakthrough in Ebola research  -  Mar 3, 2008
Afrik.com,There is a great deal at stake here as until now the Ebola virus could only be handled in type P4 maximum security laboratories. The number of these types

Uganda: Ebola - Bundibugyo Won't Give Up Tasty Monkey  -  Feb 29, 2008
AllAfrica.com,In an attempt to establish the origin of the deadly Ebola virus, the government has pointed a finger at the Bundibugyo resident's insatiable hunger for

Ebola outbreak involves a new strain  -  Mar 5, 2008
American Veterinary Medical Association,Laboratory analysis has confirmed the presence of a new strain of Ebola virus in a recent outbreak in humans in western Uganda, according to the World

HEALTHY LIFE: Blood Cleaner  -  Mar 13, 2008
KCRG,Marburg hemorrhagic fever- Related to the Ebola virus, Marburg is a rare disease believed to be a potential bio-weapon threat. Its symptoms are similar to

8 Medics Rewarded for Fighting Ebola  -  Feb 28, 2008
AllAfrica.com,EIGHT health workers, who survived the deadly Ebola virus in Bundibugyo district, have been rewarded. The primary healthcare state minister, Emmanuel Otaala

Uganda: Uganda to Become Regional Centre for Ebola Studies  -  Mar 3, 2008
AllAfrica.com,Uganda is set to become the regional research centre for studies on the origin and prevalence pattern of the deadly Ebola virus (Epidemiology of Ebola).

India in outbreak zone  -  Feb 25, 2008
Calcutta Telegraph,These include HIV from chimpanzees, the deadly Ebola virus from fruit bats, the West Nile virus from common sparrows and avian influenza (H5N1 virus) from

Suspected Ebola cases under probe  -  Mar 3, 2008
New Vision,The Ebola Virus struck Bundibugyo in November last year leaving more than 40 people dead, including Dr. Jonah Kule.

Ebola Lethal Outbreak Confirmed  -  Feb 27, 2008
NewsOXY,Health officials say that a lethal Ebola virus has killed 16 people and infected 51 others in western Uganda. The first Ebola case was reported on November

'Surrogate mums' step in to rear baby gorilla  -  Mar 22, 2008
Kent News,This is mainly due to deforestation, the ebola virus and the bush meat trade, as they continue to be widely eaten in Central Africa.

NIV clears WHO test, is reference laboratory for South-East Asia  -  Mar 13, 2008
Pune Newsline,...complex (MCC) with P-3 biosafety levels for handling microorganisms of highly infectious nature- like the SARS virus and Ebola virus among others.

Opinions: A diagnosis of Campus Health  -  Mar 6, 2008
ASU Web Devil,These symptoms mean one of two things: Either you've contracted a combo of pinkeye, gonorrhea, and Ebola virus, or, far worse, you are one of millions who

Release hope for rejected gorilla  -  Mar 18, 2008
BBC News,Their decline is mainly due to deforestation, the Ebola virus and the bushmeat trade in central Africa. Port Lympne and Howletts were set up by the late

Margot at the Wedding  -  Feb 27, 2008
Times Online,The Ebola virus would make a more welcome guest at a family wedding. Nicole Kidman's role as the eponymous anti-hero of Margot at the Wedding is the most

COLUMN: Women are never happy, you know?  -  Mar 15, 2008
Twin Falls Times-News,They probably don't contain the Ebola virus. No matter: I'm not permitted to munch so much as a donut within the confines of her Subaru Outback.

Reasons to be fearful  -  Mar 15, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk,They went to central Africa in search of the Ebola virus. They conducted a bio-attack of botulism using trucks that they parked next to American naval bases

Posted By Taylor, Scott  -  Mar 20, 2008
Pembroke Daily Observer,While most other NATO countries have declined Manley's request as though Canada were offering them the Ebola virus, France has hinted that it may provide an

There's no need to expand NCAA field  -  Mar 11, 2008
FOXSports.comFans preparing for a tournament TV commitment would be required to use the Ebola virus as an adequate excuse for calling in with an illness than could span

Frozen Life Cubes  -  Mar 18, 2008
Space Daily,...back from an extraterrestrial environment will have to be placed in a containment facility equivalent to what is used for the study of the Ebola virus.

Who could reject this little bundle?  -  Mar 17, 2008
Kent Online,...they will be extinct by 2020 if the number continues to decline at its present rate because of deforestation, the ebola virus and the bushmeat trade.

Headed to a dangerous site? Four pointers to keep in mind  -  Mar 2, 2008
Seattle Times,...that sometimes they have to pay unofficial "special fees" at the airport and that the Ebola virus was reported as recently as October.

Poor-nation plague next global pandemic  -  Feb 28, 2008
The Asian Pacific Post,...natural reservoir is Chinese bats; and the Ebola virus, which holes up in three species of African fruit bat and infects animal primates and humans.

Wendyl Nissen: Venice calls - and to hell with explanations  -  Mar 1, 2008
New Zealand Herald,The inference being that when the woman of the house was away, the children starved, the power was cut off and the ebola virus moved in.

Morgellons: Emerging illness or filaments of imagination?  -  Feb 24, 2008
Nashua Telegraph,...number of diseases now being tracked that medicine didn't recognize initially, including Rift Valley fever, West Nile virus, tularemia and Ebola virus.

Emerging diseases pose big threat to livestock agriculture  -  Feb 24, 2008
Grand Island Independent,Outbreaks such as the exotic African Ebola virus have been small but deadly. In the new study, researchers from four institutions analyzed 335 emerging

Stockwire.com: CHAT LIVE in the only dedicated CHAT ROOM for ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
Trading Markets (press release),The Company is developing drugs against a number of viral diseases including H5N1 bird flu, seasonal influenza, HIV, hepatitis C, rabies, Ebola virus,

Team effort keeps Balad water supply safe  -  Mar 14, 2008
Air Force Link,To put this in perspective: one grain of salt is 70 microns, the Ebola virus is 0.2 microns and the Rhinovirus is 0.02 microns. Then, chlorine is added to

Sow There: Invasives are the bad boys of the plant world  -  Mar 14, 2008
Enterprise-Record,But if you had the ebola virus blooming in a pot on your window sill, would you think, "Oh, I can keep it contained." The Plant Right folks have listed the

Surgeon/inventor Jerome J. Landy dies  -  Mar 13, 2008
MiamiHerald.com,Over the years, Jerome Landy worked with Class III biohazards like anthrax and the Ebola virus, and obtained patents in the United States and abroad for

Fat Joe - The Elephant In The Room  -  Mar 12, 2008
DJBooth.net,You can never go wrong with a Weezy chorus and Joey’s flow is sicker than the ebola virus. Inspiring rappers take note; Crackhouse is the kind of track that

'Cuff 'em, Dan-o!'  -  Mar 6, 2008
Cedar City Review,I’m thinking that these amazing capsules contain not just vinegar – "nature’s fat eaters" – but a little Ebola virus – nature’s flesh eaters.

Everyday folk at war  -  Mar 3, 2008
Bolton News,He has worked all over the world photographing topics as diverse as IRA soldiers in Ireland, the Ebola virus in Uganda, famine in Ethiopia and Olympic

The Page That Will Be Keeping A Keener Eye Out For Low-Flying ...  -  Mar 3, 2008
Football365.com,...using only a pencil and a rubber band, finding a cure for AIDS, cancer and the Ebola virus and that time we played guitar on stage with David Bowie.

Next plague may come from Africa  -  Feb 24, 2008
The News - International,...possibly through hunters who killed and butchered apes; Sars, whose natural reservoir is the Chinese bat; and the Ebola virus, which holes up in three

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