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One evening last week my friends and I sat down to watch a video. The name of the film was "Outbreak" and it told the story of a strange and terrible disease . The disease suddenly attacked a small village in Africa and doctors were [1] to help people who caught it . [2] parts of their bodies ( hearts , livers and kidneys ) became liquid , then blood started to pour out of their ears , eyes and noses , and soon after that they died . A person could be perfectly healthy one day and dead the next . In the film the American doctors wondered what to do . They had to decide [3] they would help the sick Africans or not . If they stayed to help they might be killed by the disease themselves , but if they left , the deadly disease might never be stopped . In the film , the American government decided to drop a bomb on the [4] village and destroy the patients , the doctors and the disease itself . But this was not the end of the story . Later the disease reappeared in America and killed many more people , as you will discover if you ever see this film [5] .

We thought it was just a crazy story in a movie , but [6] I was watching the news a few days ago , I saw --to my great surprise-- that much of this horror film has become real! In the African country of Zaire , at least 57 people have died of a mysterious killer disease called Ebola . As in the film , the Ebola virus turns people's body parts to blood and causes death in a very short time . Doctors haven't [7] found a way to cure the disease , and so far it looks like the only way to prevent it is to keep it from traveling farther . For this reason , the Zairean government has told people not to travel , and [8] that the police will arrest anybody trying to leave a village where there have been cases of Ebola .

Specialists at the World Health Organization in Geneva are working day and night to find a way to fight Ebola , but [9] a cure is found , the situation is will probably get worse . They say that nine out of ten people who catch Ebola die , and today's newspaper reports that the disease is traveling fast in spite of the government's efforts to keep people in their villages . In "Outbreak", the doctors succeed in finding a cure and the film has a happy ending , but no one really knows what will happen with the Ebola virus . These days the [10] world is waiting , hoping and praying for a happy end to a horror story that became real .

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