Then you turn into bloody mush.
ABC News: Angola Says at Least 77 Die in Acute Fever Outbreak This isn’t good.
Mar 18, 2005 — LUANDA (Reuters) – At least 77 people, most of them children, have died in northern Angola after an outbreak of a disease the World Health Organization (WHO) suspects to be acute hemorrhagic fever, officials said on Friday.
They have ruled out the Ebola virus — a type of hemorrhagic fever and one of the world’s deadliest diseases — but are urging people to avoid travel to Uige, about 140 miles north of Luanda.
“Most of the city has been affected, but some areas are worse hit than others. We ruled out Ebola on Monday,” Health Ministry spokesman Carlos Alberto said.
Top StoriesDiplomatic sources in Luanda said they understood the airport in Uige had been closed.
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RTFA, John: they have RULED OUT ebola. It’s deadly, but it’s something else.
Shouldn’t that be “Not Ebola Outbreak”?
“They have ruled out the Ebola virus “
The only “good” thing about this type of disease is that it kills the host so quickly, it breaks the infection chain.
Unlike, unfortunately, Avian Influenza.
Are you people blind? The very first line says: “Ebola-*****LIKE***** virus…” As in similar to Ebola but not Ebola…
The press keep using the word “ebola” instead of the more acurate term: acute hemorrhagic fever syndrome
There are many hemorragic versions. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001373.htm
I’m pretty sure that what will come to light here…is that it’s Denque fever. It can have the types of symtoms talked about. Denque hemorrhagic fever happens when you’ve HAD one form of it, then are infected with antibodies from ANOTHER variety of dengue. Hemorragic fever can also happen in children (with their first exposure) if they are younger than 12. Most of the victims here were under 12.
WHO needs to determine IF this is a case of a NEW kind of Denque fever..or, if it’s the case of an especially nasty version of the one usually in that area.
It’s not Ebola. But, our moronic newswriters don’t seem to GET the concept that there are other types of diseases out there. Sheesh.
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/61/67291.htm
more info on HFV…(hemorragic fever virus)
Initial reports point to denque fever, but the WHO has been concerned about the HFV (ebola is in that group). But, contrary to popular thought….some are transmissible human-to-human, or have the capacity to mutate to that…and some DO HAVE a longer period before symptoms.
….The WHO has been concered about a bio-terrorist HFV attack.
I wonder how the germ-scientist sleep at night knowing about the “what if’s”.
Breaking the chain assumes that the dead body can no longer transmit the disease. I suspect this is not the case.
Ref #8, philgar
Actually, it does not.
The reason the chain of infection is broken in human-transmitted acute, lethal diseases is because the host dies before it can spread the virus through the community. There is a very short incubation period.
Although coming in contact with the blood or secretions of a recently
deceased person may well pass on the virus, without that the
chain is broken.
As you can imagine, this is precisely why Ebola has not overwhelmed Africa.
And this is why you see Ebola spreading rapidly and lethally in small settings (e.g., a clinic) and being extinguished by a simple, limited quarantine – even if imposed by the virus itself.
Diseases with 3+ day incubation periods are another matter entirely.
Actually, Ebola took most of it’s secondary victims…via funeral rites. In the villages hardest hit….they insisted on preparing the body of the deceased, by draining blood, and other close, contact with the passed on. It’s why some “tribes” were harder hit than others. The problem posed to the medicos…was trying to get them to NOT DO their eons old rites with the dead.
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/03220502/H5N1_Angola_Hemorrhagic_Testing.html
It could be bird flu? The news just keeps getting better.
Some time has past since this story originally posted. However, your readers should understand that Ebola-Like viral outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever are usually caused by a cousin virus called Marburg. Marburg virus is named after the town in Germany where the first outbreak of this kind of disease was recorded. Marburg has some similarities to Ebola, but they are not the same virus. I don’t know how many strains of Marburg exist or whether there is only one known strain. Ebola, a filovirus, actually comes in several strains at present (Angola, Sudan, Zaire, Ivory Coast, and Reston to name a few). All the strains are named after the location of their recorded outbreak. Notice that Ebola Reston is named after Reston Virginia. Fortunately, the first outbreak of Ebola in the United States was caused by a new strain that kills monkeys (please understand, it is not fortunate for the monkeys) but does not apparently lead to disease in the human host. As it turns out, the outbreak seen in Angola in April 2005 was indeed caused by Marburg virus. It is Ebola-like, but historically speaking, Ebola was originally described as Marburg-like and not the other way around (Marburg was identified first, and about ten years later, western science identified Ebola). Tragically, this particular Marburg outbreak has proven to be one of the worst on record. The idea that there would be fan clubs and dolls for this class of viral infection is in a word sick.
[The author has his Ph.D in the Biomedical Sciences]
i realy dont beleve it could kill instently it afects childern under 12 it dusent sound like ebola