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...this deadly filovirus merits international concern, not only in its own right, but as a harbinger of things to come. We ignore the current epidemic in Gulu, Uganda at our collective peril...
...large Zaire outbreaks Ebola emerged in areas so remote that there was little, if any, threat of spread to other countries, including the U.S. Gulu, however, is connected to Uganda's capital by a paved highway, and flights from the now-prospering Kampala depart daily to London, Paris, Johannesburg, Nairobi and other African locales. The threat of spread in this case is a bit more real...
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. One of the most terrifying infectious diseases known to man has once again mysteriously surfaced, this time in the Gulu district of northern Uganda. To date, this outbreak has seen 191 confirmed infections and 68 deaths from this terrible pathogen...
...Oyet, standing outside her mud-and-thatch hut. "Then she said she had pains in the muscles in her legs." Owete's chest began hurting. She became feverish and vomited blood. "We thought it was malaria," says a neighbor, Justin Okot. At a clinic in the nearby town of Gulu, Owete was injected with the antimalarial chloroquine and sent home. "She didn't even last 24 hours," says Okot. "We didn't understand that someone could die that quickly. We began calling this thing gemo, which in [the local language] Luo is a type of ghost or evil spirit...
...Health workers in the Gulu and Kitgum districts are quarantining anyone manifesting the flu symptoms, diarrhea and vomiting that mark the onset of the disease, and have banned the communal cleansing ritual at the end of funerals. It's heartbreaking work for the medical personnel because the disease can't be treated, only contained. And the squalid refugee camps of northern Uganda - established to house people fleeing attacks by a sociopathic guerrilla movement calling itself the Lord's Resistance Army - are a fertile breeding ground, given their poor sanitation. Whereas a previous outbreak in the Congo in 1995 was ultimately...