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Tearful MP's career on hold after pocketing jewelry Last Updated Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:53:25 BURNABY, B.C. - New Democratic Party MP Svend Robinson stunned supporters Thursday by saying he needs to take medical leave after admitting he took a ring without paying for it. Svend Robinson is comforted by NDP MP Libby Davies. "Something just snapped in this moment of total, utter irrationality," he said while crying and struggling to read a statement during a nationally televised news conference in his Vancouver-area riding of Burnaby-Douglas. "While attending a public jewelry sale, I pocketed a piece of expensive jewelry," Robinson...

Scientists have developed a fast-acting Ebola vaccine that protects monkeys after a single shot. If the vaccine proves similarly effective in humans, it may one day allow scientists to contain Ebola outbreaks quickly. Ebola virus spreads easily from person to person, causes illness quickly and kills a significant number of the people it infects. It is gratifying to have a vaccine that holds great promise for protection of humans Dr Peter Jahrling There is no treatment for the disease, so preventing the spread of the virus is key to containing outbreaks. The research is the result of collaboration between teams...