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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on the front line of the world's response to the deadly Ebola virus epidemic in Zaire, is hard pressed to cope with the crisis. Budget constraints have left its highest-security laboratory -- one of five such facilities in the world -- critically understaffed, and there is grave concern that overwork could lead to a fatal accident, said agency officials and independent experts. Agency scientists have led the inquiries into Legionnaires' disease, AIDS, the hanta virus outbreak and many other threats to public health. The laboratory identified the cause of the Zaire outbreak as Ebola in two days

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is in the front line of the world's response to the deadly Ebola virus epidemic in Zaire, is finding itself hard pressed to cope with the crisis. Budget constraints have left its highest security laboratory critically understaffed, and there is grave concern that overwork could lead to a fatal accident, officials of the agency here and independent experts said in interviews. They have led the inquiries into Legionnaires' disease, AIDS, the hanta virus outbreak and many other threats to public health. And, despite being understaffed, the laboratory was able to identify the cause of the Zaire outbreak as Ebola in just two days

Since its founding in 1946, the CDC has been successful in virtually all its efforts to contain epidemics. But in many ways, the agency has been a victim of its own success. As soon as the anxiety about diseases yields to sighs of relief, money is cut off, limiting the agency's ability to do research in preventing the very diseases the centers are supposed to guard against

The CDC's work at the front line against the deadly Ebola virus is discussed. The agency finds itself hard pressed to cope with the crisis amid budget constraints that have left its highest security laboratory critically understaffed and amid grave concern that overwork could lead to a fatal accident

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is on the front line of the world's response to the deadly Ebola virus epidemic in Zaire, is finding itself hard pressed to cope with the crisis. Budget constraints have left its highest security laboratory critically understaffed, and there is grave concern that overwork could lead to a fatal accident, officials of the agency here and independent experts said in interviews. They have led the inquiries into Legionnaires' disease, AIDS, the hanta virus outbreak and many other threats to public health. And, despite being understaffed, the laboratory was able to identify the cause of the Zaire outbreak as Ebola in just two days

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is in the front line of the world's response to the deadly Ebola virus epidemic in Zaire, is finding itself hard pressed to cope with the crisis. Budget constraints have left its highest security laboratory critically understaffed, and there is grave concern that overwork could lead to a fatal accident, officials of the agency here and independent experts said in interviews. They have led the inquiries into Legionnaires' disease, AIDS, the hanta virus outbreak and many other threats to public health. And, despite being understaffed, the laboratory was able to identify the cause of the Zaire outbreak as Ebola in just two days

Louis Pasteur, one of the legendary figures in the history of science, lied about his research, stole ideas from a competitor and was deceitful in ways that would now be regarded as scientific misconduct if not fraud, according to a revisionist history published this month. 'The Private Science of Louis Pasteur,' by Dr. Gerald L. Geison of Princeton University, is based on an examination of Pasteur's 102 laboratory notebooks, which have been well preserved for more than a century. Geison is one of the few historians of science to base research on laboratory notebooks. In Pasteur's case, the research turned up serious discrepancies between his publications and public statements and what he recorded in his notebooks

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