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Ebola Virus
U.S. Experts Help Tackle Outbreak
November 12th, 2000
U.S. health experts arrived in Uganda on October 19, 2000, and said they have identified a highly contagious hemorrhagic virus that has killed 41 people in Uganda as a strain last seen in 1979. The six-member team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, unloaded crates of supplies and a refrigerator from two small planes. The four epidemiologists and two microbiologists will help Ugandan health workers and World Health Organization experts in treating patients and containing the disease. The CDC team said it has identified the virus as Ebola Sudan, a less deadly strain than others that last hit...
Source: Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA (2000-11-12)
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