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Ebola virus outbreak

old_aussie · 2014-03-23 23:19:19

This outbreak seems to be moving quickly http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-23/ebola-outbreak-in-guinea-leaves-at-least-59-people-dead/5339338 The outbreak is around the common boarders of the three countries, Guinea, Sierra leone and liberia. Ebola, one of the world's most virulent diseases, was first discovered in the…

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#2942 04-01-2019 3:30pm

zell12

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Potential case in Sweden

A young man had been in Burundi for around three weeks, and was exhibiting classic symptoms of haemorrhagic fever, including vomiting blood, according to the hospital’s chief medical officer.
The emergency clinic at Enköping hospital, where the patient was first admitted, has been closed and staff who were in contact with the patient are also being looked after.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/04/suspected-ebola-case-being-investigated-swedish-hospital

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#2943 04-01-2019 4:15pm

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So, avoid IKEA then ?

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#2944 04-01-2019 4:23pm

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The very thought of Ebola gives me the heebie jeebies.

That Swedish person would have gone through so many places on the way back from Burundi. That's it, I'm digging a moat and manning the ramparts.

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