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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Lawrence K. Altman / The Bulletin
February 8, 2009
Dr. William Close, an American surgeon who in 1976 played an important role in controlling the first epidemic of the deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Zaire and preventing it from spreading, died Jan. 15 at his home in Big Piney, Wyo. He was 84.
The cause was a heart attack, said his daughter....
