Extractions: The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com Story Tools BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) An Ebola outbreak in Republic of Congo has killed 79 people but appears to be slowing down, health investigators said Wednesday. The rate of new infections has started tapering off in the quarantined region of Cuvette West, where the deaths have occurred, World Health Organization spokesman Iain Simpson said in Geneva. Last week, health officials registered only eight new cases compared to as many as 25 in previous weeks. Nearly 100 people are still battling the disease. "I'm not suggesting that we won't see more cases, because we probably will," Simpson said. "But we're hopeful that the number of new cases will still drop." The viral disease is one of the world's deadliest, causing rapid death through massive blood loss in up to 90 percent of those infected. Ebola spreads through bodily fluids. Primates, hunted by many central Africans for food, can carry the infection. Villagers believing the disease to be a curse initially fled from emergency medical workers earlier this month.
Extractions: HAMILTON, Ontario Health officials are awaiting test results to determine if a woman who traveled to Canada from Africa is ill with the Ebola virus. Doctors at Henderson Hospital have run a complete battery of tests on the woman, including tests for other hemorrhagic fevers, but said in a news conference they may never find out what disease the woman is suffering from. "We many never know" what she has, said Dr. Douglas MacPherson of Health Canada, the national health department. "But in terms of the diagnostic testing, we will have a yes/no type response certainly out of Winnipeg, within the two or three day frame that we were talking about," he added. If the woman turns out to have the Ebola virus, it would be the first known case of the often-fatal disease in North America.
AsiaOne a dual infection in birds or people may be leading to a new H5N1 or a new ebola virus. Yes, a swap between bird flu and ebola viruses can happen. http://www.asiaone.com.sg/st/st_20050728_331151.html
Extractions: International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Autos SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters Your E-mail Alerts RSS ... Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com Story Tools GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) The fifth outbreak in two years of the deadly Ebola virus in a remote area of central Africa has so far killed 29 people, the U.N. health agency said Wednesday. HEALTH LIBRARY Health Library YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Follow the news that matters to you. Create your own alert to be notified on topics you're interested in. Or, visit Popular Alerts for suggestions. Manage alerts What is this? But the outbreak appears to be coming under control, with no one currently sick in northwest Republic of Congo, said Dr. Pierre Formenty, a World Health Organization expert who has just returned from the region. WHO cannot declare the outbreak formally over until February, and there is still the danger that it could recur because animals in the area are still dying, Formenty said. The current outbreak is believed to have begun when four young hunters ate a wild boar they found dead in the forest. He said residents of the affected villages of Mbanza and Mbomo are beginning to trust the health workers more. In the past they had refused to give blood for testing, fearing that the health workers were using it for black magic and to spread the disease.
Marburg Vs. Ebola - Ebola Wins. By Daniel Engber More than 100 people in Angola have died so far in an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, a close relative of ebola. If you have to fall sick with a viral http://slate.msn.com/id/2115923/
Extractions: More than 100 people in Angola have died so far in an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, a close relative of Ebola. If you have to fall sick with a viral hemorrhagic fever from the Marburg-Ebola family, which one should you choose? Go with Marburg . Though we don't know very much about how these viruses work, history suggests that between a quarter and half of all people who get Marburg die from it; there is a 90 percent mortality rate among those who contract Ebola. These numbers may be revised in light of the Marburg outbreak in Angola, however. Early reports indicate a mortality rate of nearly 100 percent. Symptoms of the two diseases are very similar. Both begin with the sort of muscle pain, fever, headaches, and nausea that you might see in response to any viral infection. About five days later, a rash appears on the chest and back, and the victim's face may appear vacant and expressionless, as the virus begins to affect the brain. Both Marburg and Ebola are hemorrhagic fevers, which means they cause bleeding from multiple organs within the body. In the grisly later stages of the illness, the victim may start to ooze blood from orifices or the sites of injections. Continue Article placeAd(2,'slate.homepage/slate')
DNA Ebola Vaccine ebola vaccine shows promise in new study NEW YORK Guinea pigs that were injected with genes from the ebola virus gained protection against infection, a possible step toward creating an ebola vaccine for people. http://www.usatoday.com/life/health/general/vaccinat/lhgva008.htm
Ebola A Serious Threat But ebola s use as a bio weapon has not. A small amount of ebola (variety Marburg) released into the subways of New York, Boston or Washington, DC, http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/10/12/82239.shtml
Extractions: Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2001 Dr. Weeks has had a distinguished medical and military career with the U.S. Air Force Medical Corps. He began military service as the youngest flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. After 15 years of military service, during which he served in senior posts, including Hospital Commander at Bitburg Air Force Base, Germany, Dr. Weeks retired and entered private practice. During the past two decades, he has focused his studies on the threat of biological and chemical agents as weapons of war. Dr. Weeks has lectured and written numerous articles on infectious diseases and biological warfare. A significant problem in dealing with biological attacks is that we may not be aware we have been subjected to such an attack until several days or weeks later. There would be no warning until the first deaths had taken place and the medical community had properly ascertained the cause of death. One such biological agent that physicians may not recognize and correctly diagnose, until the laboratory data on the victims begins to accumulate, is Ebola or a related viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF).
CBC News: Vaccines Protect Monkeys From Ebola, Marburg: Study Last year, Dutch biotechnology firm Crucell announced an ebola vaccine it developed successfully protected monkeys during trial tests. http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/06/05/monkey-vaccines050605.html
Extractions: CBC is currently experiencing a labour disruption. Last Updated Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:33:56 EDT CBC News Canadian and American researchers are reporting a discovery in fighting the diseases caused by the deadly Ebola and Marburg viruses. They've developed two vaccines that protected monkeys from the viruses, according to a study published in this month's online edition of the journal Nature Medicine. Dr. Steven Jones While it's a promising discovery, a human vaccine could still be at least five years away, said Steven Jones, one of the Canadian scientists involved in the study. The world's largest known outbreak of Marburg virus is blamed for killing 335 people in Angola since last fall.
Extractions: NEW YORK Scientists trying to develop vaccines against the deadly Marburg and Ebola viruses in Africa are reporting an important milestone, a new type of vaccine that prevents the diseases in monkeys. Successfully immunizing monkeys is an essential step toward producing vaccines for people. Two new vaccines, one for Marburg and one for Ebola, were 100 percent effective in a study of 12 macaques being published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine. Monkeys given just one shot of the vaccine and later injected with a high dose of the virus did not even get sick. Normally, all the animals would be expected to die. The Marburg and Ebola viruses are closely related, and in both people and monkeys they cause hemorrhagic fevers that can be fatal within a week. There is no vaccine or treatment for either disease. Death rates in people can be high, sometimes exceeding 80 percent or 90 percent.
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Extractions: CNN Medical Correspondent (CNN) For the first time researchers have found a potential vaccine for the Ebola virus. The vaccine was tested only in monkeys, but it could be a significant development because doctors currently have nothing to treat or prevent infections. The current Ebola outbreak in Uganda has killed 145 people. Since it first appeared in 1976, the virus has killed more than 800, infecting nearly 1,100. The disease causes its victims to bleed to death within days of infection. ALSO Meet one of the CDC experts who went to Uganda to help control the Ebola outbreak there The vaccine was created by Dr. Gary Nabel and colleagues at the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health. Research appears in the journal Nature. "We found that it's possible to protect against the lethal effects of the Ebola virus in a primate model. By vaccinating animals ahead of time against Ebola virus we were able to prevent them from dying from the infection when they were challenged with virus," said Nabel.
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Extractions: The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com Story Tools GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) The toll from the Ebola outbreak in Congo has risen to 75 deaths among 93 cases, but is believed to be under control, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday. The outbreak in the Kelle and Mbomo districts near the central African country's border with Gabon is thought by scientists to have been caused by the consumption of infected monkey meat. The WHO last Wednesday put the death toll at 64. Ebola killed at least 73 people in Congo and Gabon in an epidemic from October 2001 to February 2002. It is passed on by infected body fluids and certain strains can kill between 50 and 90 percent of its victims through massive internal bleeding, The number of victims exceed those reported from Congo and Gabon a year ago and came from an investigating team of WHO and government experts deployed in the remote northwest area. "It would be unrealistic to say that we've seen all the cases, but it is realistic to say that we have seen most," WHO spokesman Ian Simpson told Reuters.
NPR : Advances In Vaccines For Marbug, Ebola Viruses There s significant progress being made on vaccines to fight the deadly Marburg and ebola viruses. Vaccines would be invaluable in fighting the diseases in http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4697840
