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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on January 14, 2018, 08:54:02 pm
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Panic spreads after girl, 9, dies of new eye-bleeding fever feared to be even more dangerous than the Black Death
The girl died of the viral disease in Uganda, sparking fears of a fresh health crisis
A health team rushed to put her body in a bag and decontaminate her house
It is feared the disease could kill up to 40 per cent of those infected by it
By Tim Stickings For Mailonline
Published: 07:54 EST, 14 January 2018 | Updated: 13:29 EST, 14 January 2018
Fears are growing of a major health crisis in East Africa as a girl died of a suspected fever which could be more deadly than the Black Death.
A nine-year-old girl died in central Uganda with the symptoms of an eye-bleeding disease which it is thought could kill up to 40 per cent of those infected by it.
The feared outbreak comes only months after hundreds of people were killed by the plague in Madagascar in what was described as the worst bout for 50 years.
Read more at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5267793/Black-Death-virus-causes-panic-Uganda-girl-dies.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5267793/Black-Death-virus-causes-panic-Uganda-girl-dies.html)
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They haven't identified it by name yet, it seems, except to say it's similar to Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. **nononono*
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Let's bring in more people from Uganda! /Democrats
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Let's bring in more people from Uganda! /Democrats
Those sh's are going to be the death of us.
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Those sh's are going to be the death of us.
Probably already is. No telling how many immigrants and illegals have some undetected disease which has increased the risk among long time American citizens. The only test required of LEGAL immigrants is a TB test.
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Africa Wins Again.
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I’m being somewhat sarcastic, but how long until we hear some Ds say that Trump had them infected to prove that Uganda is indeed a shithole?
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This is winning?
PLAGUE HORROR Black Death panic as girl, 10, drops dead after suffering gruesome ‘eye-bleeding fever’
Child contracts horrible new disease with similarities to the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever sparking panic over a new plague engulfing parts of East Africa
By Patrick Knox
13th January 2018, 5:05 pm
Updated: 13th January 2018, 5:07 pm
A HORRIFIC new disease which makes blood to ooze from the eyes could be about to bring fresh misery to Africa.
Medics are concerned they are on the verge of a health emergency — worse that the Black Death outbreak last year — after the sudden death of a girl in the Nakaseke district of Uganda. ...
Usually this vile disease spread by tick bites or contact with infected livestock and cause muscle pains, headaches, vomiting, diarrhoea and bleeding - and even death. ... The Sun (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5334346/epidemic-fever-eyes-bleeding-black-death/)
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Right.
And we/Govt had a meltdown flying Ebola patients back here to treat them and cure them.
That stopped and dropped out of the news like it got hit by a hammer, within weeks.
Nice to think the B'bleep have collected enough of That horror to have any variances in the strains Identified and being weaponized, somewhere off the radar today.
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Isn't it odd how Ebola, avian flu, Zika, et al., so quickly disappeared from the news and, apparently, from public health? It's a miracle!
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Isn't it odd how Ebola, avian flu, Zika, et al., so quickly disappeared from the news and, apparently, from public health? It's a miracle!
And if there's ever enough of a lapse in security for them to get caught with it, the story will be it was a Top Secret Program to develop vaccines for them.