PEDIATRICS Vol. 96 No. 3 September 1995, pp. 489
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EBOLA ON THE INTERNET

J. F. L. MD

With the death toll still rising, the outbreak of Ebola in Zaire continues to exert a horrible fascination for people around the world. Everyone seems hungry for up-to-date information and, as usual, the Net is there to provide it.

On the World Wide Web there are official sites from the World Health Organization (htt://www.who.ch/ebolaebolahome.html) and the Centers for Disease Control (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/ebola.htm).

The page from David Ornstein, a computer consultant based in San Francisco, is particularly impressive, with every entry colon-coded to make it easy to spot how up-to-date each piece of information is. Ornstein is at http://ichiban.objarts.com/ebola/ebola.html. He includes sections on the history of the virus and the current outbreak, as well as the latest developments. The News and Observer online news service also provides excellent background to supplement its news coverage at http://www.nando.net/newsroom/zairesources.html. The University of Cape Town in South Africa also has a page at http://www.uct.ac.za/microbiology/ebopage.html, put together by Ed Rybicki, who is a professor of virology. You can read what Rybicki has to say even if you don't have Web access. He is among the folk discussing the outbreak in the bionet.virology newsgroup. Both sci.med and clari.world.africa news-groups are also buzzing with posts on Ebola.

No Usenet access either? Then subscribe to the ProMED mailing list for e-mail on the latest "emerging diseases." Just send a message to majordomo@usa.healthnet.org, with "subscribe promed" in the text. Be prepared for between 10 and 20 messages a day.