(5)THE PHILIPPINES-PIG FARM-EBOLA VIRUS

(5)THE PHILIPPINES-PIG FARM-EBOLA VIRUS
090130) -- MANILA, Jan. 30, 2009 -- A pork dealer hangs bangers for sale at a wet market in Manila, the Philippines, on Jan. 30, 2009. The Philippine health authority on Friday reported that three pig farm workers and a slaughter house worker were found carrying antibodies of a strain of Ebola virus which might have jumped from sick hogs to human but has yet posed immediate threat to the public health. (Luis Liwanag) (hdt