Ebola Victims Face 90% Death Risk; Drugs Start to Emerge
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Almost 40 years after Ebola emerged from the jungles of Africa as one of the world’s most lethal diseases, scientists are beginning to close in on treatments that may be able to stop the virus.
People who are at risk of infection have little protection for now against a virus that kills as many as 90 percent of those it strikes. The latest outbreak, in Guinea, has infected 88 people, killing 63 of them, the nation’s health ministry said today. A further five people died in neighboring Liberia and there’s one suspected case in Sierra Leone,the World Health Organization said. Still, the agency said the risk to visitors is low and it isn’t recommending any travel restrictions.