Ebola breaks out in Uganda, 14 Dead

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Ebola-like virus spreads in Angola

From correspondents in Luanda, Angola
March 25, 2005
THE Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus that has killed 98 people in northern Angola, has now spread to the capital Luanda, killing two people there.

A 15-year-old boy and an Italian paediatrician, Maria Bonino, who had both been in the northern Uige province to which the virus had previously been confined, died yesterday from the virus in Luanda, local health officials said.

At least three other people have been diagnosed with the virus in the capital, they said.

The Marburg disease, a severe form of hemorrhagic fever in the same family as Ebola, was first identified in 1967, affecting laboratory workers in Marburg, Germany and also in Frankfurt and Belgrade who had come into contact with infected monkeys from Uganda.

Mr Bonino worked for the It
alian medical aid group Medici con Africa Cuamm and ha
d 11 years experience as a volunteer in Africa with the last two years as paediatrician in the provincial hospital of Uige.

Angolan health officials are battling to contain the outbreak detected in October in Uige that has claimed the lives of scores of children.

"Two nurses died Tuesday of the Marburg illness at the Uige provincial hospital," said Filomena Wilson, the spokeswoman of a commission tasked with monitoring the outbreak.

A total of five nurses have died over the past weeks from the virus that is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids of infected people, she said.

The largest outbreak on record of Marburg virus occurred from late 1998 to 2000 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 123 people.

The World Health Organisation said that 75 per cent of the victims of the disease had been children under the age of five.

Angolan health officials assisted by WHO experts and teams from Med
ecins Sans Frontieres and the US Centres for Disease Control were in Uige to try to sh
ore up measures to stamp out the outbreak.

"The situation is bad, very bad," said health ministry spokesman Carlos Alberto. "There is no isolation room. We are setting it up."

Angolan health officials said this week there was no need to quarantine the region bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo, but tests were being conducted on the body of a man in Luanda who had exhibited the same symptoms.

Victims of the Marburg virus can suffer from a severe watery diarrhoea, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting early on in the illness followed by severe chest and lung pains, sore throat and cough, according to the WHO.

Many cases result in severe bleeding, beginning from the fifth day and affecting the gastrointestinal tract and the lungs, accompanied by a rash, sometimes involving the entire body.

Skerryvore,

madkins
 
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There IS a God!!
 
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Go, baby, go! Run that total up!
 
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Spreads to another province - 173

Marburg virus is taking its toll on Angolans

There was an unusually high death rate among the 200 cases identified since October, with an "overwhelming concentration" of initial cases in children under five, it added.

The rare haemorrhagic fever, related to the deadly Ebola virus, is characterised by headaches, nausea, vomiting and bloody diarrhoea. It is spread through close contact with bodily fluids including blood, saliva and semen.
 
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Go Marburg!!!

I hate to say it though, niggers are much more efficient at killing niggers than any virus has proven to be so far. Maybe if we airdrop machetes along with taunting tribal insult leaflets??
 
BBC.-World
Last Updated: Wednesday, 18 May, 2005, 12:11 GMT 13:11 UK


Ebola outbreak confirmed in Congo

Tests have confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
Nine people have died and two more are sick in the Cuvette West province, scene of at least three Ebola outbreaks in recent years.

WHO Congo representative Amadou Yada said a family of hunters contracted the disease after picking up the body of a dead chimpanzee in the forest.

There is no known cure for the Ebola hemorrhagic fever.

Samples were sent to the International Medical Research Centre in neighbouring Gabon, which has confirmed that the deaths were caused by Ebola, Dr Yada said.

Isolation

He said villagers in the Etoumbi district, some 700km north-west of the capital, Brazzaville, had gone to the forests
to hunt elephants, when they came across the body of a dead chi
mpanzee, which they took home to eat, before becoming sick.

The BBC's Christian Tsoumou in Brazzaville says that most people in the forest area are hunters.

He says that after previous Ebola outbreaks in the area, the authorities have told people not to touch dead animals they find but few people take any notice.

Dr Yada said that a medical team was about to leave for Etoumbi to set up an isolation unit and warn people about the risks of touching dead animals and avoiding contact with those infected.

Ebola is highly contagious and is spread through body fluids, such as blood and sweat.

In 2003, 120 people died from Ebola in Cuvette West.

Skerryvore,

madkins
 
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Originally posted by Brewski@May 3 2005, 07:51 AM
Go Marburg!!!

I hate to say it though, niggers are much more efficient at killing niggers than any virus has proven to be so far.â┚¬Ã…¡ÃƒÆ’”�šÃ”š  Maybe if we airdrop machetes along with taunting tribal insult leaflets??
Excellent reasoning there Brewski, except savages can't read leaflets. Not even pictographs. Maybe machetes and some 40 oz. malt liquor bottles (although the niggers probably can't figure out how to open screwtops). How about machetes and malt liquor in sheep bladders. That'll start some action.

By the way the monkey virus has taken out
a few more jungle bunnies:

Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola ' update 21

As of 5 June, the Ministry of Health in Angola has reported 423 cases of Marburg haemorrhagic fever. Of these cases, [b
]357 were fatal.[/b]The vast majority of cases have occurred in Uige Province, where 412 cases and 346 deaths have been reported.

The number of new cases being reported in Uige municipality has declined considerably, with only 1 new confirmed case detected in the past week. This case was a recognized contact who was under follow up. For comparison, during the peak of the outbreak, which occurred in late March and April, 30 to 40 new cases were being reported weekly.

Go Marburg!
 
Re: Ebola-like virus spreads in Angola

Outbreak of Marburg in Uganda has authorities on high alert

Outbreak of Marburg in Uganda has authorities on high alert

Health officials in western Uganda believe the latest outbreak of the Marburg virus may have originated from a monkey.

Health officials suspect the outbreak which was confirmed on the 30th of July was contracted from a Colobus monkey, which was caught and skinned by two niggers who both became sick.

A 29-year-old nigger became sick on 4 July 2007, was admitted to hospital on 7 July and died on 14 July; the disease was confirmed by laboratory diagnosis on 30 July.

A 21-year-old co-worker with a similar illness to whom he had been providing care then developed the symptoms for Marburg on the 27th of June and was hospitalized with a haemorrhagic illness; he has since recovered and was discharged on 9 July.

Both niggers were working in a mine in western Uganda.

Senior health officials say tests on the skin of the animal are being conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and as many as 150 niggers thought to have had contact with the victims were being monitored.

Isolation centres have been set up by Uganda's health ministry in both the main referral hospital of Mulago and at the clinic in Kamwenge where the victims were reportedly working in a gold mine.

A hundred or so contacts have been isolated in Kamwenge, fifty in the mining camp and fifty in the local neighbourhood where six niggers who helped skin the animal are said to be in a serious condition, while more niggers are being monitored in the capital, Kampala.

National rapid response teams have been mobilized in the the area with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners in the field, to investigate the outbreak.

According to the WHO the Marburg virus is a rare but highly fatal haemorrhagic illness with epidemic potential and is caused by a virus from the same family as the one that causes Ebola haemorrhagic fever.

The virus is transmitted from nigger to nigger by close contact via blood or other body fluids (faeces, vomitus, urine, saliva, and respiratory secretions).

Transmission via infected semen can occur up to seven weeks after recovery.

The illness caused by the Marburg virus begins suddenly with a high fever, a severe headache and severe malaise; muscle aches and pains are also common.

Rapid, progressive debilitation follows accompanied by severe watery diarrhoea, abdominal pain and cramping, nausea, and vomiting on about the third day; the diarrhoea can persist for a week leaving patients drawn and extremely lethargic.

Severe haemorrhagic manifestations appear between days 5 and 7, and fatal cases usually have some form of bleeding, often in vomit and faeces and from the nose, gums, and vagina.

The severe phase of illness is accompanied by sustained high fevers, confusion, irritability, and aggression.

Death occurs most often between 8 and 9 days after symptom begin and are usually preceded by severe blood loss and shock.

The WHO says the worst outbreak of the disease killed nearly 250 niggers in Angola in 2005.

Although the disease may be contracted from monkeys, according to the WHO, animals and plants are generally not viable hosts and despite years of intensive investigation no animal reservoir or other environmental source of the virus has been identified.

The WHO says there is no indication of the need for any restrictions on travel or trade with Uganda.
 
Re: Ebola-like virus spreads in Angola

There are other nasty diseases rampant in Caribbean countries and Puerto Rico, such as varieties of dengue fever, one type of which can be fatal. Tourist, beware--a mosquito can ruin your life, and preventive measures are non-existent most places south of here.
I think that this is a somewhat more immediate threat to careless or ignorant Americans.
 
Congo slaps quarantine on Ebola outbreak area

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Congo slaps quarantine on Ebola outbreak area

By Lubunga Bya'Ombe - Jungle Boy Reporter

Tue Sep 11, 10:27 AM ET

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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Authorities placed two towns in southern Democratic Republic of Congo in quarantine on Tuesday to contain an outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, a deadly disease for which there is no treatment.

Health authorities in Congo's southern province of Kasai Occidental had reported more than 160 deaths among 352 sick people in the past four months due to a mystery fever.

Five samples sent to a laboratory in Gabon and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the presence of the Ebola virus, Health Minister Victor Makuenge Kaput said late on Monday.

"Precautions have been taken to prevent the epidemic from spreading," he told state television.

Information Minister Toussaint Tshilombo told Reuters on Tuesday the government had imposed quarantine on the areas around Mweka and Luebo to prevent the spread of the disease.

A spokesman for the World Health Organization in Geneva said it was not clear whether all the deaths had been caused by Ebola as other diseases were also thought to be rife in area.

Some patients had responded to treatment with antibiotics, suggesting Shigella disease which is borne by contaminated food or water, Gregory Hartl said.

"We know there are five cases confirmed as Ebola. We still believe other things are going on. We have to get more people on the ground in the area to investigate."

FEVER AND MUSCLE PAIN

Ebola, which causes death in 50 to 90 percent of cases, is transmitted by contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected persons.

Symptoms begin with fever and muscle pain, followed by vomiting, diarrhea and in some cases bleeding from orifices.

The virus's natural reservoir seems to reside in African rain forests and in areas of the Western Pacific, according to the United Nations health agency.

Makuenge urged the population to take precautions, such as washing hands frequently and avoiding contact with infected patients.

No cases have been reported in the east of the country, where recent heavy fighting between government forces and rebels forced thousands of civilians to flee their homes.

Kasai is east of Kikwit, site of a major Ebola outbreak in the former Zaire in 1995 which killed 250 of 315 sufferers.

The WHO on Tuesday activated its Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network, known as GOARN, asking partner health organizations, including the Atlanta-based CDC, to send epidemiologists and other experts, Hartl said.

"The WHO is in the process now of coordinating international teams to go into the area," he said.

It is also important to warn communities that Ebola can be transmitted at burial ceremonies where mourners have direct contact with the body of the deceased, he added.

"We have to identify cases and isolate cases, separating Shigella patients from Ebola," Hartl added.
 
WHO confirms 3 Ebola deaths in Congo

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28473722

WHO confirms 3 Ebola deaths in Congo

Agency says it’s aware of 36 additional suspected cases, including 12 deaths

updated 1 hour, 2 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The World Health Organization Friday confirmed the Ebola virus had killed three people in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo and said more deaths were being investigated.

Earlier this week, WHO officials said diseases other than Ebola were likely making people sick in the region as well as Ebola, a frightening and often fatal virus.

WHO said laboratories had only confirmed Ebola infection in three of the cases.

"WHO is aware of 36 additional suspected cases including 12 deaths associated with this outbreak. A further 184 contacts have been identified and are being followed up," WHO said in a statement.

Auguste Mopipi Mukuluma
nya, health minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, said on Dec. 25 that analysis of blood and stool samples taken in the village of Kalwamba at the heart of the apparent outbreak had shown that an Ebola epidemic was under way.

The virus, which is highly contagious via bodily fluids and causes severe vomiting, diarrhea and often internal and external bleeding, was first reported in the area on November 27.

There is no cure for Ebola, which kills 50 to 90 percent of its victims.

In 1995, a major Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then known as Zaire, killed 250 of the 315 people known to have been infected, including health workers who touched infected blood.
 
Re: WHO confirms 3 Ebola deaths in Congo

Hemorrhagic Fever Reappears in Congo

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The Ebola virus, which causes a deadly hemorrhagic fever, has surfaced for the second time in less than two years in south-central Congo, where there have been 36 suspected cases, 12 of them fatal.

Only three cases have been proved by laboratory tests to be caused by Ebola, and because other infectious diseases also affect the region, the true number of cases is not known. But in the meantime, health workers are keeping a close watch on 184 people who may have been infected.

The virus is spread by contact with blood and other body fluids, and once people become ill they can infect others. Family members or health workers often become sick after taking c
are of patients or burying the dead. The disease begins with flulike symptoms and can later cause a rash, internal hemorrhaging and bleeding from the gums and body openings. Death rates can be high, often 50 to 90 percent.

The World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders and other groups have rushed into the region in hopes of stopping the outbreak by setting up isolation units for the sick and monitoring those who might be infected.

Civil war has raged for years in Congo, and a newspaper in Zimbabwe has reported that two soldiers from that country have died from the disease in Congo, where they were sent to help the government fight rebel forces. But that report has not been confirmed.

How the outbreak began is not known. Bats are thought to harbor the virus, and may spread it to people. Gorillas, chimpanzees and some types of antelope also contract it, and people are sometimes infected after slaughtering and eating the animals.
 
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