Sudan Investigated for Ebola-Like Illness

KAMPALA, Uganda - World Health Organization (news - web sites) experts are investigating cases of an Ebola (news - web sites)-like hemorrhagic fever in southern Sudan, WHO officials said Thursday.

Fifteen cases of the mystery illness have been reported near Yambio, a southern Sudanese town close to the border with northern Uganda, since May 10, said Dr. Oladipo Walker, WHO's resident representative in Uganda.


Walker said there had been no deaths reported.
"We are aware of the cases and we are investigating," he said.


Two WHO experts in hemorrhagic fever and outbreak response arrived in Yambio on Wednesday to investigate the illness, said Cathy Roth, a member of WHO's global alert and response team.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040520/ap_on_re_af/sudan_outbreak_2

Ebola sounds like quite possibly the most horrendous disease on Earth.

very scary. It will reach the states sooner or later, just like Mad Cow Disease did. Hopefully, we will be able to contain it quickly.

which is far more deadly

Vomiting blood

The symptoms of the illness around Yambio include general malaise, fever, vomiting blood and bloody diarrhoea, Ahmed said.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,6119,2-11-1447_1530645,00.html

Sudan: The forgotten genocide

FRED BRIDGLAND

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=578622004

SNIP

The prize at the Kenya talks is a peace of sorts between north and south and access to Sudan’s newly discovered rich oil reserves.

The US president, George Bush, wants a Sudan accord before November’s election to offer to the Christian Right, a powerful Bush constituency that lobbies for the southern Sudan, where many US missionaries work. In these circumstances, the people of Darfur might be expendable to Sudan and to the outside world.

END SNIP

The ebola-like outbreak is in the south, correct?

I foresee many innocent people dying here. Oil is a curse.

There is a history of haemorrhagic fever outbreaks down along
the borders with Uganda and Zaire.

Oil is a curse.