In the May 29 issue of The Lancet, a group of scientist announced that they cured ebola in six macaque monkeys.
Child of the nineties that I am, that seems phenomenal to me. The future is now! I admittedly have never seen the movieOutbreak; my mother said it would be too scary for me at the time, and given that I have to leave the room for many of the scenes in Dexter, I’m inclined to agree. But, I did read the book that Outbreak was based on– The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston– so I got a good sense of the collective fear of ebola that swept the nation at the time the movie came out.
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