This report expresses very reasonable concern about decline in colonies of primates in regions of the Republic of Congo and the neighboring countries which have had recent human outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever.
However, there has been no confirmed isolation of Ebola virus, either from humans or wild primates, in the Republic of Congo in recent weeks.
But, as many of you who follow these outbreaks know, rapid primate decline has been a leading indictator of a pending human Ebola outbreak.
M.A.
To: Mother Abigail
2 posted on
08/28/2004 5:46:09 AM PDT by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: Mother Abigail
Too bad it is gorillas and not guerillas!
4 posted on
08/28/2004 6:14:55 AM PDT by
verity
(The Liberal Media is America's Enemy)
To: Mother Abigail
If the Great Apes go extinct due to Ebola, wouldn't this be nature taking its course? I know animal rights lovers may find this callous, but seriously. If a disease wipes out 80% of a species every time it pops up, and it pops up on average once a year or two, and the reproductive cycle of that species is roughly 1 offspring every 4 to 5 years... its seems that extinction is nature at work here.
6 posted on
08/28/2004 6:23:26 AM PDT by
HamiltonJay
("You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.")
To: Mother Abigail
"Scientists fear new Ebola outbreak may explain sudden gorilla disappearance"Why are Hillary and Janet Reno missing?
7 posted on
08/28/2004 6:26:21 AM PDT by
Wurlitzer
(I have the biggest organ in my town {;o))
To: Mother Abigail
Scientists fear new Ebola outbreak may explain sudden gorilla disappearance Nonsense poopypants! It means they have finally all evolved into Humans.
To: Mother Abigail
Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't it be a relatively simple matter to find out if that is the cause? It seems that if the gorillas are disappearing because they're dying it should be fairly easy to find the remains of one and test it, taking all proper precautions to prevent exposure to the disease, of course..
13 posted on
08/28/2004 6:45:30 AM PDT by
sweetliberty
("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
To: Mother Abigail
30 posted on
08/28/2004 7:51:56 AM PDT by
hershey
To: Mother Abigail
That's too bad... I like gorillas. :(
32 posted on
08/28/2004 8:07:52 AM PDT by
Porterville
(How can the median price of a home in CA be 450,000 dollars? How? Where is the money?)
To: Mother Abigail
Where's Dustin Hoffman when you need him? I'm sure he could solve this crisis. What was that movie he made? Wag The Outbreak... or something like that? Maybe he and PETA can go to the congo and start a campaign to get people to stop eating monkeys.
35 posted on
08/28/2004 11:18:07 AM PDT by
PsyOp
(John Kerry—a .22 Rimfire Short in a .44 Magnum world.)
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