10 DIE OF EBOLA VIRUS AFTER EATING CHIMP

At least 10 people who feasted on chimpanzee meat in a remote region of Gabon have died of the Ebola virus, according to World Health Organization experts who flew to Gabon this week to investigate the deaths.

The people who died in the latest outbreak of Ebola, a hemorrhagic fever dreaded for its virulence, took sick after a feast of chimpanzee meat on Jan. 26 in Mayibout, a village in northeastern Gabon, on the west coast of Central Africa.International health experts said nine other villagers with the symptoms of the infection were placed in isolation at a hospital in Makokou, the provincial capital, about 90 miles from the village. According to radio reports monitored here, the authorities of Gabon sealed off the area where the outbreak occurred.