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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

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