Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4037-1007958806-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Sun, 09 Dec 2001 20:36:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 28299 invoked by uid 510); 10 Dec 2001 04:33:46 -0000 Received: from n20.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.70) by all.net with SMTP; 10 Dec 2001 04:33:46 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4037-1007958806-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [216.115.97.191] by n20.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Dec 2001 04:28:07 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_2); 10 Dec 2001 04:33:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 62341 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2001 04:33:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m5.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 Dec 2001 04:33:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.125.69) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Dec 2001 04:33:26 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fBA4XoH08879 for iwar@onelist.com; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 20:33:50 -0800 Message-Id: <200112100433.fBA4XoH08879@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 20:33:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: [iwar] [fc:Not.iwar.-.but....Ebola.Confirmed.in.West.Africa] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ebola Confirmed in West Africa By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS .c The Associated Press GENEVA (AP) - An outbreak of fever in the west African nation of Gabon has been confirmed as the deadly disease Ebola, the World Health Organization said Sunday. It is the world's first documented outbreak of Ebola since last year in Uganda, where 224 people - including health workers - died from the virus. Ebola is one of the most virulent viral diseases known to humankind, causing death in 50 to 90 percent of all clinically ill cases. ``It's been confirmed by a laboratory in Gabon,'' WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told The Associated Press. ``We've had reports that seven people have died.'' Hartl said WHO has already sent a team to help the coastal nation and that a second team of four specialists would leave Geneva for Gabon on Monday. The outbreak is in remote Ogooue Ivindo province in northeastern Gabon, he said. Gabon was last afflicted in an outbreak in 1996-97 that killed 45 of the 60 people infected. ``We've had very little information,'' Hartl said. The confirmation came from a laboratory in Franceville, also in eastern Gabon. A team from the Gabon Ministry of Health and the International Center of Medical Research in Franceville went to the province last week when they first received reports of that the outbreak might be Ebola, Hartl added. On Friday, Hartl said there were unconfirmed reports of a possible outbreak in Congo, which is near Gabon although the two countries have no common borders. Ebola is passed through contact with bodily fluids, such as mucus, saliva and blood, but is not airborne. The virus incubates for four to 10 days before flu-like symptoms set in. Eventually, the virus causes severe internal bleeding, vomiting and diarrhea. There is no cure, but patients treated early for dehydration have a good chance of survival. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Stop Smoking Now Nicotrol will help http://us.click.yahoo.com/2vN8tD/_pSDAA/ySSFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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