Scientists identify new lethal virus in Africa
Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 19:21
in Health & Medicine
ATLANTA (AP) -- Scientists have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus. The so-called "Lujo" virus infected five people in Zambia and South Africa last fall. Four of them died, but a fifth survived, perhaps helped by a medicine recommended by the scientists....
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