11-18-2008, 06:48 PM
I was listening to "The Hot Zone" on a CD and it was the most suspenseful book I ever listened to! The Ebola-Reston virus killed all the monkeys it infected and none of the people who became "Ebola positive" after exposure, who seemed to have a cold at worst. So, that seems like a candidate for making an Ebola vaccine to be used to vaccinate people in an area with an outbreak of a worse Ebola virus like Ebola-Zaire or... well, I have forgotten the other kinds but they are all horrible. So using Ebola-Reston would be like a Smallpox vaccine where you don't give it except for those potentially exposed to Smallpox because the vaccine is so dangerous itself, but the disease is far worse.
Posted on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:31:49 GMT at http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...149AAvtGHy
Posted on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:31:49 GMT at http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...149AAvtGHy