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The number of cases in the epidemic of Ebola virus infection in Zaire is expected to rise sharply in the next few weeks, the World Health Organization said Monday. Seventeen more Ebola deaths were confirmed Monday along with four new cases, all in Kikwit, the city where the outbreak began in March, the WHO said in Geneva. The WHO, a U.N. agency in Geneva, said the number certainly would rise in the next few weeks because the epidemiologists have found a higher density than expected of inhabitants in houses to which Ebola patients fled from local hospitals

The number of cases in the epidemic of Ebola virus infection in Zaire has risen to 84, including 77 deaths, and the numbers are expected to rise sharply in the next few weeks, the World Health Organization said on May 15, 1995

The drug AZT has proved so ineffective in preventing the progression of AIDS in children that federal health officials have halted part of a large study involving it. The long-term study, begun in August 1991, involved 839 children initially 3 months to 18 years old, who were treated in 62 hospitals. The children were divided at random into three groups: one that received AZT alone, one that received didanosine, or ddI, and a third that received a combination of AZT and ddI. Neither the children and their parents nor the doctors knew which therapy each child received. Federal officials agreed and stopped the AZT part of the study on Feb. 6. The part of the study comparing ddI alone and ddI in combination with AZT is continuing. The monitoring committee found no statistically significant differences between the two regimes on its latest routine interim check

An international team of experts who reviewed more than 10,000 scientific articles published in the last 15 years found little scientifically rigorous evidence to justify most existing therapies, and also found that most are prescribed by doctors who are poorly trained in caring for whiplash patients. Moreover, there is no generally accepted uniform approach for the management of whiplash, the authors said in a scathing report published in the journal Spine and discussed at a recent news conference in Montreal. The authors said they believed it was the most comprehensive study of whiplash ever done. Whiplash often results when the impact of an accident suddenly thrusts the victim's head backward and then forward, injuring the muscles and soft tissue in the neck and upper spine to produce neck pain and limit motion of the neck. Whiplash may result from rear-end or side-impact motor vehicle collisions, but it can also occur during diving and other mishaps

ATLANTA -- The Ebola virus that is causing an epidemic in Zaire is one of the deadliest infectious agents, and no one knows why. Scientists can only guess why the thread-shaped virus has suddenly erupted to cause its third major outbreak in central Africa since 1976, when it was discovered in Zaire. Scientists do not know where the virus usually exists in nature or where it has hidden since it caused its last major outbreak, in southern Sudan in 1979. But they do know ways the epidemic may be stopped, and that is why the World Health Organization, a U.N. agency in Geneva, has sent scientists to Zaire to control a further spread of the virus, which has killed 48 people by the WHO's count

The Ebola virus that is causing an epidemic in Zaire is one of the deadliest infectious agents, and no one knows why. Scientists can only guess why the thread-shaped virus has suddenly erupted to cause its third major outbreak in central Africa since 1976, when it was discovered in Zaire. Scientists do not know where the virus usually exists in nature or where it has hidden since it caused its last major outbreak, in southern Sudan in 1979. But they do know ways the epidemic may be stopped, and that is why the World Health Organization, a U.N. agency in Geneva, has sent scientists to Zaire to control an additional spread of the virus, which has killed 48 people by the WHO's count

Scientists attempts to determine why the Ebola virus has suddenly erupted in Zaire, its third major outbreak in central Africa since 1976. The World Health Organization has sent scientists to Zaire to control a further spread of the virus, which has killed at least 48 people

The Ebola virus that is causing an epidemic in Zaire is one of the deadliest infectious agents, and no one knows why. Scientists can only guess why the thread-shaped virus has suddenly erupted to cause its third major outbreak in central Africa since 1976, when it was discovered in Zaire. Scientists don't know where the virus usually exists in nature or where it has hidden since it caused its last major outbreak, in southern Sudan in 1979. But they do know how to stop the epidemic, and that is why the World Health Organization, a U.N. agency in Geneva, has sent scientists to Zaire to control the virus, which has killed 48 people by the WHO's count

The deadly Ebola virus continues to spread in Zaire, chiefly affecting health care workers in four areas. Some new cases have occurred among families of health workers who apparently transmitted the virus, one of the deadliest known. Six new cases were suspected on May 10 and May 11, 1995

Some of the latest cases have occurred among families of health workers who apparently transmitted Ebola virus, one of the deadliest known, before their symptoms developed or became severe, or after they left hospitals in Kikwit, the focus of the outbreak. Some patients fled the hospital in panic. Others left because their initial flulike symptoms from the Ebola infection improved, but they then went on to bleed profusely from the body at home, presumably spreading the virus to family members through the blood. Yesterday, Governor Bernadin Mungul Diaka, administrative head of Zaire's capital, Kinshasa, announced he had unilaterally extended the quarantine in Kikwit to the entire province of Bandundu after health workers reported that the virus had spread to Masengo, a city 60 miles from Kikwit and on the road to Kinshasa. There is no medical confirmation that the illness has spread, however