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...outbreak apparently began with a 36-year-old laboratory technician identified only as "Kimfumu." He arrived at a medical clinic in the small agricultural city of Kikwit, Zaire, last month for emergency surgery. But after two operations, surgeons realized they could do nothing for him; his internal organs were hemorrhaging so badly that life was quickly draining from his body. Soon after Kimfumu died, the five medical workers who treated him, including an Italian nun who assisted in the operations, began coming down with their own symptoms: headache and fever, diarrhea, massive bleeding from every body orifice and, within...
...dreaded Ebola virus, which resists all medicines and kills up to 90% of its victims. As the full measure of the danger dawned on them, alarmed government officials called for help from international public-health experts in the U.S. and Europe. They closed schools and health clinics in Kikwit, ordered people to stay off the streets, and imposed a quarantine on the city in a desperate attempt to keep the virus from spreading 250 miles west to the capital city of Kinshasa, with its 4 million people...
...reported in the outlying villages of Mosango, Bonga-Yasa and Vanga. And thousands of miles away, in Bergamo, Italy, two sisters of Floralba Rondi, the nun who helped operate on Kimfumu, sat in medical quarantine. They were waiting to see if they too had been exposed when they visited Kikwit for their sister's funeral. "It's been a week of prayer," said Rosanna Rondi to an Italian newspaper...
...Kinshasa, residents fretted about their relatives and friends in Kikwit-there are no phone links and now no movement between the two cities-and feared that Ebola might breach the quarantine. Says Cornaille Mbala, a senior nurse at Kinshasa's Mama Yemo Hospital: "When this sickness hits you, you die in one week. Of course we are all afraid." And around the world, but especially in the U.S., people sensitized to Ebola's horrors by a spate of books and movies-Richard Preston's chilling best seller The Hot Zone; the TV movie Robin Cook's 'Virus'; the film Outbreak...
Officials tightened their blockade of Kikwit and four other towns amid reports of people bribing police to let them out of thequarantine area where the deadly Ebola virus has been identified. At least 86 people have been killed so far by the virus. In Kinshasa, a nurse who fled the containment zone was placed in isolation as medical personnel tried to determine whether she is infected. Police had spent most of the day looking for the nurse and a riverboat captain who had travelled to Zaire's capital from Kikwit. The captain was found not to be infected and released...