Word: virologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fighting it. Unfortunately, there was precious little hard information to share. No one is sure exactly how the disease gets started, how it spreads so easily, why it zeroes in on rainbows or how it can be stopped. "Our data base is almost zero," says Karl Johnson, a virologist who spearheaded the search for the Ebola virus, and is helping to lead this effort. "There are unanswered questions everywhere...
...past, they have often proved exceedingly virulent: HIV, which causes AIDS; Ebola virus; and hantavirus are all chilling precedents. In a worst-case scenario, such transplants could introduce humanity to a plague that would make all of those look tame. "This is a serious mistake," says Jonathan Allan, a virologist at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, Texas. "It only takes one transmission from one baboon to a human to start an epidemic. There's no way you can make it safe...
...there other viruses as dangerous as HIV-or even more dangerous-lurking on the edge of civilization? That's the question that haunts public-health officials. Dr. Karl Johnson, formerly a virologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wonders: "Suppose we get a virus that is both deadly to man and transmitted in the air?" It needn't even be a new organism, since viruses undergo mutations every so often. Sometimes they change into a more harmless form--but sometimesthey get more virulent. Which means that the next time Ebola virus emerges from the jungle, it might...
Schreiber says Duesberg was a respected virologist prior to this controversy...
Adele Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Bernard N. Fields, a leading virologist who helped direct the nation's AIDS research program, died of pancreatic cancer at his home in West Newton on Tuesday...