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...stop the spread," says Dr. Sam Zaramba, Uganda's top health official. For weeks, Uganda's health ministry released statements about a "mysterious" virus plaguing Bundibugyo, a western region on the border with the Congo. Uganda experienced an outbreak of the Marburg virus - a rare Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever - this summer, raising speculation that the disease had returned. Ebola was last in Uganda in 2000, when 425 people were infected, and over half, including a doctor, died...
There is no known cure or vaccine for Ebola, which has symptoms of nausea, fever and muscle pain. Humans, chimpanzees and gorillas usually die of shock when the virus attacks capillaries and blood vessel linings, draining the body of blood in a vampire-like manner. The new Ugandan strain kills patients by inducing high fever, without much loss of blood, according to Dr. Sam Okware, head of Uganda's national hemorrhagic fever task force...
...response group, and the third corresponded to the stress-response group. In patients, there was no discernible clinical difference between those infected with the first and second parasite groups, but patients with the third type were more likely to have a severe case of malaria with high inflammation and fever. Daily said that the experiment showed that “parasites can sense the environment and respond. Up to this study, it was not clear that this was the case.” Dyann F. Wirth, co-director of the Infectious Disease Initiative at the Broad Institute and the chair...
...give him the Louisiana Territory, which he planned to make the hub of a New World empire. President Thomas Jefferson was so alarmed, he considered making an alliance with Britain to drive the French out. But when the French troops en route to occupying Louisiana died of yellow fever in Haiti, Napolon decided to cut his losses and sold the territory to the U.S. for the bargain price of $15 million. By 1861, however, Napolon's nephew Napolon III was ready to try another New World power play, sending an army to Mexico to collect debts...
...impossible to win anything from the baseline.” Clayton added that the strong performance against a tournament field packed full of players from powerful SEC schools showed “that we can compete at a national level.”Kumar, despite suffering from a fever, won a three-setter, 7-6(10), 3-6, 6-1, that included a marathon first-set tiebreaker in which he saved a number of set points. He won his next round, 6-3, 0-1, after his opponent retired due to injury, but was eliminated in the quarters...