Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 18:14:33 EST
Subject: PROMED: Ebola - Cote d'Ivoire (7)

From: Dorothy Preslar 
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 12:30:32 -0800

EBOLA - COTE D'IVOIRE / LIBERIA (7)
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WHO has, according to news reports, announced
that deaths of 10 people in River Bay, Liberia
were NOT caused by Ebola, as feared; rather,
they appeared due to cholera and dysentery.

However, tests on the 4 people who lived
with Jasper Chea, the one confirmed Ebola
case hospitalized in the Ivory Coast, have
not been completed.  Technical difficulties
were incurred at the Pasteur Institute in
Abidjan, and the blood samples have been
taken to the Paris institute laboratory by
Bernard Le Guenno.

Jasper Chea (the one confirmed case) is
apparently out of danger, leading to the suggestion
that this strain may be less virulent.

Swiss animal researcher Christophe Boesch is
reported having said that about 30 chimps
died of Ebola in the Ivorian rainforest
bordering Liberia in 1994.  

- -- Dorothy Preslar
   FAS / ProMED Washington Officer
   Federation of American Scientists 
   E-mail: dpreslar@igc.apc.org
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From: Stephen Morse 
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 13:47:33 EST
Subject: PROMED: Ebola - Angola?

From: Jack Woodall 
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 21:33:10 -0500

EBOLA - ANGOLA?
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Source: the OUTBREAK Page http://objarts.com/outbreak-unreg/index.html
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CNN reports on 14 Dec.1995 that the World Health Organization, Geneva, is
investigating 2 possible cases of Ebola in Angola.
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