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The Return of Ebola
A Ugandan nurse watches over Sharon Apio, a two-year-old Ebola patient at the Gulu district hospital. (Boris Grdanoski - AP)
Scientist Is Watched for Signs of Ebola A scientist who works in a maximum containment laboratory at Fort Detrick has been placed in isolation after she accidentally stuck herself with a needle while working with mice infected with a weakened form of the Ebola virus.
Volunteer Tests New Ebola Vaccine Experts say this first Ebola vaccine is probably the safest and most sophisticated vaccine ever made, without a single component coming from the virus itself.
From The Post
U.S. Develops Fast-Acting, One-Shot Ebola Vaccine (Post, Aug. 7, 2003)
Africa's Apes Are Imperiled, Researchers Warn (Post, April 7, 2003)
Ugandan Crusader Loses Battle With Killer Virus: Provincial Physician Succumbs to Ebola After Leading Desperate Effort to Contain Outbreak (Post, Dec. 6, 2000)
Ebola Spreads in Uganda (Post, Nov. 6, 2000; 11:54 AM)
Ebola Probe Looks Further Back: Experts Examine Mysterious Death Of Ugandan Doctor (Post, Oct. 21, 2000)
Where Disease and War Intersect: Officials Fear Ebola Was Spread at Hospital Among Ugandans Escaping Rebels (Post, Oct. 17, 2000)
Ebola Outbreaks Confirmed in Uganda (Post, Oct. 16, 2000)
Fever That May Be Caused by Ebola Kills Dozens in Uganda (Post, Oct. 14, 2000)
CDC Funds Diversion Is Probed: Hill Panel, Shalala Scrutinizing Agency (Post, Feb. 9, 2000)
Exporter's Monkeys Tested for Ebola Virus (Post, April 20, 1996)
Md. Lab First to Confirm Presence of Virus (Post, April 18, 1996)
Ebola in Texas Monkeys Similar to Reston Strain (Post, April 17, 1996)
Gabon Issues Warning On Ebola Virus Following 13 Deaths (Post, Feb. 20, 1996)
Scientists Followed `Viral Footprints' to Serengeti Lion Killer (Post, Feb. 1, 1996)
HUNTING -- SPECIES BY SPECIES -- FOR THE SOURCE OF DEADLY EBOLA (Post, Aug. 14, 1995)
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