Ebola in Democratic Republic of the Congo - Again??
3/5/99

Monday, 2nd December, 1996

Marilyn Lahana, the nursing sister from a Johannesburg clinic who was infected with Ebola-Gabon, died on 24/11/96.

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• Click here for an official news release from Prof Bob Swanepoel , National Institute for Virology (17 Nov 1996),
  
• another release from the NIV (18/11/96) (re: EBOLA - SOUTH AFRICA: LOCAL WEBSITE)
  
• a new release from Prof Bob Swanepoel (22/11/96)
• Message from the family
• The latest official release from Bob Swanepoel (26/11/96)

ProMED reports:

• November 17, 1996
  
• 18 Nov 1996
  
• 19 Nov 1996 Ebola - South Africa (04)
  
• 200 people are NOT being quarantined (19/11/96)
  
• ...physician who flew to South Africa... (19/11/96)
  
• Excerpt from the WHO release of 28/11

Articles from the Johannesburg evening daily "The Star":

• Health team tracks down Ebola carrier (18/11/96)
• Deadly virus contractible only via body fluids (18/11/96)
• Ebola sufferer's fight for life may last several weeks (21/11/96)
• Viral diseases bound to rise (22/11/96)

• Nurse Lahana loses fight for life (25/11/96)
• Ebola nurse's husband thanks medical team for care
• Daily monitoring system for 'contacts' of Ebola

And other stories from the Medical Section of the Independent Online. I thank Barry Sandland for not objecting to me copying these here.

...and - finally! - stories from the Mail and Guardian: (22/11/96)

• Sharp- witted doctor spotted Ebola
• SA may have found a treatment [for Ebola]

EBOLA: HUNT FOR RESERVOIR

(Ivory Coast, ProMED Digest Monday, 18 November 1996; Volume 96 : Number 217

and more recent news from ProMED Digests

• Ebola - Gabon: new outbreak (02)
• Ebola - Gabon: new outbreak (03)
• Ebola - Gabon: new outbreak (04)
• Ebola - Gabon: new outbreak (05 - 06)
• EBOLA - GABON: NEW OUTBREAK (07)
• EBOLA - GABON: NEW OUTBREAK (08)

EBOLA - ZAIRE: BAT RESERVOIR?
Work done by Prof Bob Swanepoel and co-workers from the National Institute of Virology in Johannesburg and the CDC in Atlanta, among others. See the latest Emerging Infectious Diseases at the CDC site for the detailed article.

Ebola Reston in Texas!!

Ebola Epidemic in Zaire...
seems still to be over!!

copyright November 1996, May 1999 by Ed Rybicki unless otherwise stated