Ebola Vaccine Tested As Last Resort To Lab Accident - Human Rat

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Little bit scary - I could see some corrupt drug companies trying to get around proper testing rules by 'accidentally' exposing people to harm and then claiming it is the only way to possibly try and help them. Drug companies have a lot of reason to find end-runs around the rules - money being number one. Hope it work, but still scary because it is the ebola virus.

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1. I used to live less than 5 minutes from the Reston Monkey House

Which is the flash point for an Ebola incident in the non-fiction book "The Hot Zone".

I hadn't realized that until I'd moved to the opposite coast and read the book. Gave me nightmares for a week. :scared:

I knew years ago that I lived in the same town - it was only a couple minutes ago that I found the address of the (now demolished) Monkey House, did a map check, and found that it was 1.59 miles driving distance from my old house. Half that as the crow flies. :yoiks:

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2. yikes

I would have installed a peep-hole on the front door at monkey-eye-level just in case. Always brings back thoughts of The Andromeda Strain movie for me.

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3. The life of Dr. William Close

http://www.theworld.org/files/images/Close-William500.BBC:%20Large%20466x260.jpg

We remember the late Doctor William Close who passed away last month. He was the father of actress Glenn Close, and once the personal doctor of the president of Zaire ( Mobutu also had met Patrice Lumumba ). While there he worked to stop the first Ebola epidemic in Zaire. Anchor Marco Werman talks to a friend and colleague of Dr. Close, Dr. Joel Breman, of the National Institutes of Health.
http://www.theworld.org/node/24397