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In an effort to help strengthen her immune system's tolerance to keep another person's facial tissue, the patient received a transplant of bone marrow on Thursday from the same donor, [Jean-Michel Dubernard] said. The transplant went according to a scientific blueprint that Dubernard said he and Bernard Devauchelle, a microsurgeon in Amiens, had agreed on before the operation. On Tuesday, the woman, who lives near Amiens, was transferred to Dubernard's hospital in Lyon. There in 1998, Dubernard performed the first hand-forearm transplant. The recipient, Clint Hallam of New Zealand, did not comply with his prescribed anti-rejection therapy and regular exercises to train the new hand. His transplant was amputated at his request in 2001

Since it was discovered in 1976, the Ebola virus has killed more than 1,200 people in scattered outbreaks in Central Africa, the World Health Organization calculates. But while health workers have managed to contain the outbreaks, scientists have been frustrated that they do not know the virus's hiding place in nature. Now an international team of scientists has found evidence of symptomless Ebola infection in three species of fruit bats, adding to earlier suggestions that they are the likely reservoir

In a brief telephone interview Wednesday, [Jean-Michel Dubernard] said the two surgical teams grafted a nose, lips and chin from a donor who had been declared brain- dead onto the woman's face. Hospital officials said the woman who received the transplant did not wish to be identified. Ethics committees in France and England have rejected proposals to perform full face transplants until more research is done. The committees were concerned about the unknown risks of the long-term use of large doses of immunosuppressive drugs for a procedure that does not save lives. The aim of face transplants is to improve the quality of life for patients who have suffered severe injuries from burns, accidents and shootings, for example. Dubernard said the patient was transferred Tuesday from Amiens to the Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyon, where Dubernard works, for long-term monitoring of the immunosuppressive therapy that she will need to prevent rejection of the new partial face. The relatively short interval of about six months between the dog bite and the surgery also raised questions in the minds of some experts about what, if any, efforts had been made to perform reconstructive surgery before the transplant. 'The major question is: What were the indications' for the transplant, said Maria Siemionow, a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic who plans to perform a full face transplant

The recipient of the transplant was a 38-year-old woman who had been severely disfigured after being attacked by a dog, said the surgeon, Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard of Lyon. The operation was carried out in Amiens on Sunday. The woman who received the transplant on Sunday had been attacked by a dog in May. Dubernard said she was transferred Tuesday from Amiens to the Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyon, where Dubernard works, for long-term monitoring of the immunosuppressive therapy that she will need to prevent rejection of the new partial face. The relatively short interval of about six months between the dog bite and the surgery also raised questions in the minds of some experts about what, if any, efforts had been made to perform reconstructive surgery before the transplant. 'The major question is: What were the indications' for the transplant, said Dr. Maria Siemionow, a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic who plans to perform a full face transplant

In an effort to help strengthen her immune system's tolerance to keep another person's facial tissue, the patient received a transplant of bone marrow yesterday from the same donor, Dr. [Jean-Michel Dubernard] said. She is also receiving the standard immunosuppressive drugs used with transplants of other tissues and organs. On Tuesday, the woman, who lives near Amiens, was transferred to Dr. Dubernard's hospital in Lyon. There in 1998, Dr. Dubernard performed the first hand-forearm transplant. The recipient, Clint Hallam of New Zealand, did not comply with his prescribed antirejection therapy and regular exercises to train the new hand. His transplant was amputated at his request in 2001. No bone was included in the woman's partial face transplant, Dr. Dubernard said. So, for the bone marrow transplant, he said he removed marrow from her donor before the operation and stored it. The marrow inside bone contains cells that form other cells that play important roles in the body's immune defenses against tissues transplanted from another person

The recipient of the transplant was a 38-year-old woman who was severely disfigured after being attacked by a dog, said the surgeon, Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard of Lyons. The operation was carried out in Amiens on Sunday. In a brief telephone interview, Dubernard said the two surgical teams grafted a nose, lips and chin from a donor who had been declared brain dead onto the woman's face

The woman who received the transplant Sunday had been attacked by a dog in May. [Jean-Michel Dubernard] said she was transferred Tuesday from Amiens to the Edouard-Herriot Hospital in Lyon, where Dubernard works, for long-term monitoring of the immunosuppressive therapy that she will need to prevent rejection of the new partial face. The relatively short interval of about six months between the dog bite and the surgery also raised questions in the minds of some experts about what, if any, efforts had been made to perform reconstructive surgery before the transplant. 'The major question is: What were the indications' for the transplant, said Dr. Maria Siemionow, a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic who plans to perform a full face transplant. Photo: A FIRST: Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard of Lyon, France, collaborated on the first partial face transplant, performed Sunday in Amiens. Dubernard performed the first hand-forearm transplant in 1998

The trapping included 679 bats. The scientists found either evidence of the immune globulin (G) protein specific to Ebola virus in the blood, or fragments of the virus in the liver or spleen, of three species of bats -- Hypsignathus monstrosus, Epomops franqueti and Myonycteris torquata

The woman who received the transplant Sunday had been attacked by a dog in May. [Jean-Michel Dubernard] said she was transferred Tuesday from Amiens to the Edouard-Herriot Hospital in Lyon, where Dubernard works, for long-term monitoring of the immunosuppressive therapy that she will need to prevent rejection of the new partial face