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The African Ebola outbreak that keeps getting worse
By trkingmomoe on Tue, 04/08/2014 - 4:43am |This has grown into one of the worst outbreaks of this disease and it is growing. From what I have read that they think it came from eating fruit bats that are a delicacy in that part of Africa. Bats are a vector for Ebola. This is a good read because it follows up with a description of the virus and how it works.
April 3: Ebola “has a case fatality rate of up to 90 percent,” the organization said. 83 dead. 127 confirmed cases.
On Sunday, after the number of dead topped 90 and Mali and Ghana recorded their first suspected cases of the disease, trouble began in remote villages.
The migratory pattern of the outbreak, which aid workers call “unprecedented,” has baffled doctors. Outbreaks before this have stayed in remote pockets of the country, but this iteration shot hundreds of miles from southwest Guinea to the coastal capital of Conakry.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/07/the-african-pandemic-that-keeps-getting-worse/?tid=hp_mm
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