What does Ebola have to do with HIV disease? More than meets the eye. Both are classed as newly emerging diseases, but naturally there are similarities and differences. The Ebola and HIV viruses both originated in the hot zone of equatorial Africa. Ebola was discovered in 1976 by the Belgian epidemiologist/microbiologist Dr Peter Piot near the Ebola River in what was then Zaire. There are five variants of Ebola virus, four of them quite deadly, one apparently not deadly at all. The current outbreak is the Ebola-Zaire type. Dr Piot later became director of UNAIDS, the United Nations Aids agency located next to the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.                                                                             ...

    Selenium supplements (sodium–selenite) used alone at 1-2 mg per day repeatedly have been shown to   reduce hemorrhagic fever mortality rates by an average of approximately 60%. In a trial of 1.2 mg of sodium-selenite a day at an Ebola treatment unit (ETU) in Liberia, selenium increases survival rates from 44% to 68% - a 54.4% improvement. If the correct dose of 2.0 mg had been used survival should have increased to 75%. In a small test in Sierra Leone 1.6 mg of selenium a day helped patients feel better after one day and stronger after two days. It saved the first two patients treated including a 60-year-old man who should have died.        In a controlled clinical trial of selenium supplements treating epidemic hemorrhagic fever [EHF], Chinese         doctors used 2mg selenium per day to treat EHF. In fulminate cases the mortality rate fell from 100% to              37.6%. In all...