Submission + - Galveston lab works to stop Ebola virus in its tracks (dallasnews.com)
markwalvington writes: The pressure is on as the biggest Ebola epidemic in history creeps across West Africa, jumping over borders and permeating cells. The virus has killed more than 1,000 people. For Geisbert, three decades of scientific grunt work — hours of pipetting and disinfecting and note-taking and grant-writing — are thrust into the limelight. The public demands a cure. But Ebola treatments poised for human tests have been stuck in limbo for nearly a decade. Now demand for those treatments is high, but the market is small. Before this outbreak, Ebola had killed fewer than 1,600 people since its discovery in 1976.