Uganda Medical Workers Flee From New-Type Ebola Patients – ZioFascist Western murderers caught red-handed waging BIOLOGICAL warfare against Zimbabwe
Uganda Medical Workers Flee From New-Type Ebola Patients
By John Thawite
Sunday Vision online – Uganda
Medical workers in Bundibugyo District have fled their workplaces in fear of contracting the deadly Ebola virus. Elias Byamungu, the Chief Administrative Officer, on Friday (30 Nov 2007) said medical workers had abandoned patients in health units for fear of being infected. “The health workers are terribly afraid,” he said. Byamungu put the death toll at 28.
Health authorities, however, last night (1 Dec 2007) put the toll at 18, up from 16 registered by Thursday (29 Nov 2007). “We have had 2 more deaths in the last 24 hours, and the disease continues to spread,” Dr. Sam Zaramba, the Director General of Health Services, told Reuters. He said World Health Organisation (WHO) officials had teamed up with local experts to draw up a strategy to contain the outbreak. More than 50 people are also infected.
District health officials said 5 new cases were admitted to Bundibugyo Hospital yesterday (1 Dec 2007). “We have set up isolation wards where all those who have been diagnosed with Ebola have been quarantined and are being monitored closely,” Zaramba said.
The 1st victim died in August 2007, but the cause of death was referred to as a “mysterious illness.” Until Wednesday (28 Nov 2007) when the health ministry and the WHO confirmed it as being Ebola, the disease, which has ravaged 14 villages in the district, was being described as “mysterious and strange.” Zaramba said the illness was confirmed as being Ebola following tests at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, US.
Speaking on the phone, Byamungu said among the infected are 3 medical workers, including a doctor whom he identified only as Ssesanga, who he said was critically ill. He said the disease started in Kikyo Parish, Kasitu Sub-county and later spread to Ngamba Parish, Bundibugyo Town Council and Bubukwanga Sub-county. The 1st death occurred after a group of residents of Kikyo feasted on a goat in August 2007.
“There were accusations and counter-accusations of witchcraft. Some people were even arrested until we discovered that the problem was medical,” Byamungu said. He expressed fear that the disease could be incubating in the neighbouring districts of Kabarole and Kasese, where infected people could have travelled. Residents of Kabarole are in a state of panic, with many avoiding handshakes or being in crowed places. Taxi drivers plying the Fort Portal-Bundibugyo route said they were taking extra precautions. “We are not overloading our vehicles so as to reduce body contact among passengers. We also do not accept to transport visibly ill people,” said one driver.
Ebola is spread through contact with the body fluids of infected persons. This is the 2nd major Ebola outbreak in Uganda. The last one occurred in 2000 in Bunyoro and in the north, killing over 140 people.
News24.com 12-3-7
The Ebola outbreak that has killed 18 people in western Uganda appears to be spreading, officials said on Sunday (2 Dec 2007), as authorities examined a sample taken from a dead patient in the south of the country. Government officials told AFP that the disease, which flared in September (2007), had spread to 3 new zones in the impoverished Bundibugyo district near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Virologists were meanwhile examining a sample taken from a suspected victim who died overnight in the Mbarara region, 160 km southeast of the affected district. Health officials said several dozen medics and support staff had fled Bundibugyo when their co-workers became infected with the virus in an outbreak that has already killed 18 people and infected 61.
Virologists were also investigating an isolated patient in the neighboring Port Portale district as well as the fatality in Mbarara. “There are fears that the disease has spread,” said a top health ministry official who requested to remain unnamed. “We are waiting for the results from the samples,” he said of the 2 cases that have spread panic in the east African nation. The disease, which is fatal in 90 percent of cases, is spread by contact with body fluids, primarily blood.
Meanwhile, epidemiologists and virologists are in Bundibugyo district to try to trace backwards the source of the virus as part of a campaign to avoid future outbreaks. Authorities say the outbreak was an unknown strain, after analysis was done on tissue samples at the laboratories of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Known Ebola sub-types usually attack capillaries and blood vessel linings, draining the body of blood through openings, leaving the patient to die in shock, doctors say. But the new Uganda subtype, which provokes high fever, kills victims without much loss of blood.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2231444,00.html
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More information about this new epidemic of Ebola fever is unfolding. The 1st case dates back to August 2007 and has been associated circumstantially with feasting on goat meat. Hemorrhage is not a prominent feature of the disease.
The outbreak in the Bundibugyo District is extending and now involves at least 14 villages. The death toll now stands at 18, and the number of cases is now 61. An as yet unconfirmed case has appeared at a location 160 km to the south. The epidemic situation is fluid, and new cases may begin to appear outside the Bundibugyo District. - Mod.CP
An interactive map of the Bundibugyo region of Western Uganda can be accessed at:
http://www.maplandia.com/uganda/bundibugyo
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Univ of West Indies
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ZioFascist Western murderers caught red-handed waging
BIOLOGICAL warfare against Zimbabwe
UK caused cholera says Zimbabwe
The cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe which has left hundreds dead was caused by the UK, an ally of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has said.
Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu described the outbreak as a “genocidal onslaught on the people of Zimbabwe by the British”.
On Thursday, Mr Mugabe said the spread of cholera had been halted.
But aid workers warned that the situation was worsening and the outbreak could last for months.
In his comments to media in Harare, Mr Ndlovu likened the appearance of cholera in Zimbabwe to a “serious biological chemical weapon” used by the British.
He described it as “a calculated, racist, terrorist attack on Zimbabwe”.
Mr Mugabe has already accused Western powers of plotting to use cholera as an excuse to invade and overthrow him.
Earlier on Friday a senior South African Anglican bishop said that Mr Mugabe should be seen as a “21st Century Hitler”.
Bishop of Pretoria Joe Seoka called on churches to pray for his removal, the South African Press Association reports.
His comments came as the US ambassador to Zimbabwe warned that the country was turning into a “failed state”.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the outbreak has not been contained and the death toll has increased to some 792 people, the AFP news agency reports.
The WHO has warned that the total number of cases could reach 60,000 unless the epidemic was stopped.
US ambassador James McGee blamed the outbreak on Zimbabwe’s political crisis and the failed economic policies of its government.
He told reporters in Washington that hospitals in Harare remained closed, there was no rubbish collection and people were drinking from sewers.
President Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have been deadlocked in power-sharing negotiations for several months.
“The situation is truly grim. One man and his cronies – Robert Mugabe – are holding this country hostage,” Mr McGee said, AP news agency reports.
Bishop Seoka said that Mr Mugabe was a “person seemingly without conscience or remorse, and a murderer”.
“I believe it is now an opportune moment for all the church leaders to follow the retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, to call on God to cause the removal Mugabe from the office of the President of Zimbabwe,” he said, calling for the prayers to be held next Tuesday.
“The church in South Africa has done this before with the apartheid regime and there is no doubt that God will hear our prayers even today.”
Several African and Western leaders have recently said it was time for Mr Mugabe to step down.
Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga said African countries should force him from power.
But the African Union has rejected such calls, saying a solution to Zimbabwe’s problems must come from the power-sharing talks.
Bishop Seoka asked South Africans to show patience to Zimbabweans who have fled their homeland.
An estimated three million Zimbabweans are living in South Africa, and thousands cross over the border illegally every day.
More recently, hundreds have sought medical treatment because Zimbabwe’s health service and water supply infrastructure have virtually collapsed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7780728.stm
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Witchcraft? Everything could be explain by science nowadays. Isn’t there a project in Africa that disseminates information regarding sanitation and healthcare?
Enrique Chavez
March 8, 2008 at 3:25 pm