Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 20, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A14 Winnipeg free May 1995 the world thousands trapped behind roadblocks set up to halt spread of ebola Zaire eases quarantine Preuter Zaire the government of Zaire decided to ease a quarantine meant to keep the deadly ebola virus from spreading yesterday but thousands of peo ple trying to leave the hot zone were still trapped behind soldiers let them pass and there was Little food or increasing the risk of an outbreak of other diseases such As hoping to keep the virus from spreading to the capital the government decreed a quarantine for Kakwit a City of where the virus surfaced two months ago and sur rounding Bandu Ndu government officials said the quarantine would be relaxed to cover Only 400 Kilometres East of people from else where in Bandu Ndu province will be allowed to travel and enter Kinshasa we Are following the advice of medical experts who confirm that a broader quarantine is health minister Lon Angela Openda Bon Kuma people stranded at roadblocks will be exam ined and those who show no symptoms of any infectious diseases will be allowed to continue their world health organization spokesman Philippe Stroot said in it was unclear How Long it would take for All the travellers to be checked or whether authorities in the Field have the capacity to conduct the incurable virus has killed 89 at least another 35 people Are believed so no ebola cases have been diagnosed in a City of six million in five new cases Are appearing said Jeanjacques Muy Embe a virus expert who helped identify ebola in the but medical experts said a wide scale quaran Tine is not Only ineffective but counter product As soon As you Start closing people you give them a bloody Good reason to Bob Swanee a South african said in the More they the More they spread the Muy Embe urged authorities to begin a radio and television Campaign to explain How the virus is transmitted through exposure to body fluids and to Send More doctors and medical equip ment to the Bandu Ndu Region grows much of the cassava and fruits that feed Pascal governor of welcomed the narrowing of the there is no reason to Stop All travel and he the discovery of a new Strain of the deadly virus has Given fresh impetus to scientists wanting to find out where it comes French scientists found the new Strain after tests on a Swiss research scientist infected by a Chimpanzee in the Ivory the who was doing an autopsy on the data from the Lon term Survey of this troop of chimpanzees could answer questions about the natural Reservoir of the ebola Ber Nard be Guenon and colleagues at the Pasteur Institute wrote in Britain lancet medical there Are four known strains of the but because it is rare and outbreaks have been so widely spread scientists have not been Able to study it police debauchery reported at hotels associated press new Yor knew York City police officers Are accused of Drunken debauchery that included pawing women and sliding naked Down a Beers licked the abuse and High Jinks allegedly happened at hotels in Washington last where As Many As 400 new York officers joined thousands of other officers for a Vigil for slain colleagues at the National Law enforcement As unseemly details continued to new York City police commissioner William Bratton threatened yesterday to identify and punish the morons and nitwits at the Hyatt Regency where about 100 new York officers about Worth of damage was at least six officers stripped and Slid Down the Beer saturated escalator while others cheered them Bratton a pack of 1015 officers stood outside an elevator and grabbed women As they walked one woman told the Washington the party continued up on the fourth and six floors of the 834room where officers bulled fire extinguishers from Walls and sprayed each they also set off fire forcing an evacuation that lasted nearly two Bratton at the Bellevue hotel Early Drunken officers tried Force their Way into the rooms of women they found Paul the other guests complained of banging on banging on screaming and playing Delaney some said they heard automatic gunfire on an earlier never see a tearjerker on a first Larry and i want to eee love what a first Whan the tears started rolling Down my Mascar streaked Larry handed me a Whan i he handed me the whole come to think of Larry turned out to be a lot like a tissue Strong and the romantic things in brought to you by the pulp and paper makers of Canada ;