Emerging Diseases

Russian/U.S. Germ Warfare Troopers Battle Ebola

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 18th, 1995

Cold War era germ-warriors claim they are turning their biological weaponry against a new enemy - the Ebola virus that put the World Health Organization (WHO) on full alert after a significant outbreak in Zaire in 1995.

Russian experts who worked for years on ever more malignant strains of biological weapons now say they have found a gamma globulin antibody that, they say, can fight the Ebola fever virus. The Ebola virus causes a severe form of hemorrhagic fever with a mortality rate of about 80 percent.

"The cure was discovered by staff at the Virology Center of the Defense Ministry's Microbiology Institute," claims Colonel Igor Tikhonov, a leading...

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