Russian researcher killed by lab virus

A Russian researcher has died after sticking herself with a needle containing the deadly Ebola virus, her organisation said today.

The accident was on May 5 when Antonina Presnyakova was conducting research on Ebola, a virus for which no vaccine or remedy exists, said Natalia Skultetskaya, a spokeswoman for the Vektor State Research Centre of Virology outside Novosibirsk in central Siberia.