In the same issue, Nobel Laureate Joshua Lederberg said the " unprecedented mixing of people " caused by increased international travel has created a " tinderbox " for the spread of once-isolated diseases like Ebola fever.
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Officers of the Epidemic Intelligence Service have helped discover AIDS, Legionnaires'disease, Ebola fever and Lassa fever and to document that histoplasmosis, a fungal disease, has silently infected millions of people in this country but made relatively few sick.
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"Ebola fever is typically transmitted in a hospital setting and the confirmation of this single case presents no threat whatever to the broader community, " said Floyd, the director for AIDS and communicable diseases in the Gauteng health department.
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The death toll in the latest outbreak of the dreaded Ebola fever in northern Uganda has risen to 54, and health officials have identified 10 new cases in their ongoing search for people who have come in contact with the deadly virus, the Ministry of Health said Sunday.
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"Now we think that we have some proof that this transfusion was effective because we have seven successful cases of Ebola fever who survived, " said Dr . Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, a leading virologist who helped to identify the Ebola virus 19 years ago.
