Comments on: In state-of-the-art labs, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ alumni work toward Ebola treatments /news/2018/10/12/in-state-of-the-art-labs-bates-alumni-work-toward-ebola-treatments/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 17:54:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: midnight /news/2018/10/12/in-state-of-the-art-labs-bates-alumni-work-toward-ebola-treatments/#comment-263166 Sat, 13 Oct 2018 16:10:00 +0000 /news/?p=119324#comment-263166 Ebola was really in place for a long time in Congo before it emerged in the 1976 Yambuku outbreak that killed 280 out of the 318 people it infected, including three Belgian nuns, a priest and a nurse. If two of the nuns had not been transported to Kinshasa for treatment, the researchers would never have gotten on its trail because it was killing Africans, not whites. Aside from the biological issues, it’s essential to study infrastructure, poverty and corruption as disease vectors.

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