This is horrible, but it does seem that anyone, no matter how careful, can have an accident. A silver lining, of a sort, is that this new anti-virus is finally getting human tests.
I hope this Frau gets better. One, even a clumsy genius is still deserving to live. Two, I really hope that the vaccine works and can save even more lives. Three, no one deserves to have Ebola. It is one nasty bug!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511096,00.html
BERLIN -- It's a nightmare scenario worthy of a sci-fi movie script: A scientist accidentally pricks her finger with a needle used to inject the deadly Ebola virus into lab mice.But in this case, it really happened -- to an unidentified 45-year-old woman in Germany.
Within hours of the accident on March 12, several of the scientist's colleagues held a trans-Atlantic telephone conference to map out a way to save her life.
Within 24 hours, an experimental vaccine -- never before tried on humans -- was on its way to Germany from a lab in Canada.
Within 40 hours, the at-risk scientist was injected with the vaccine.
So far, so good. If the woman is still healthy on April 2, she can consider herself safe.
It's not a 100 percent certainty the researcher was actually infected with Ebola.
If she doesn't become infected, scientists may not know if it was the vaccine, or luck.
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