Prof. Dr. S.R. Pattyn, editor of the book entitled: "Ebola Virus Haemorrhagic Fever", as well as one of his "Ebola hunter" companions, Guido van der Groen, are indebted to Elsevier/North-Holland for their authorization to make the book available through internet. We highly appreciate the financial support of the European Commission (Project n° SOC 98 201054 05F04 (98CVVF4-025-0)). We are very grateful to Dr. Matthias Niedrig, coordinator of the European Network of Imported Viral Diseases (ENIVD) to have this book on the ENIVD website:
http://www2.rki.de/INFEKT/ENIVD/ENIVD_P.HTM
We also like to thank Dr. Michel Pletschette for his personal interest and support in this achievement. We acknowledge the superb scanning performance editing to a useful website document by Dr. Dirk De Bock, as well as the logistic help of Mr. Hugo De Groof, Jan Vielfont and Ciska Maeckelbergh. This website will be highly complementory to the website :
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JID/journal/contents/v179nS1.html
This site contains the proceedings which were published in the special issue of JID 1999;179:S1-S288. These proceedings cover the presentations made during the International Colloquium on Ebola Virus Research, 4-7 September 1996, Antwerp, Belgium. A meeting co-organized by National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA & Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Belgium.
