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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1048971/posts "WHO: Lab Tests Rule Out Ebola in Zimbabwe"
AP ^ | 12-30-03 | ANGUS SHAW
Posted on 12/30/2003 4:03:30 PM PST by Indy Pendance
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Laboratory tests have ruled out the possibility that an Angolan trader died of the feared Ebola virus in neighboring Zimbabwe, the U.N. health agency said Tuesday.
The South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases tested samples sent by Zimbabwe on Tuesday, World Health Organization spokesman Dr. Welile Shashas said.
"To the immense relief of everyone, this was not Ebola" or a similar hemorrhagic fever, he said.
Zimbabwe health authorities announced over the weekend that an Angolan national who died in the resort town of Victoria Falls on Christmas day had exhibited symptoms consistent with Ebola.
The announcement touched off fears the highly contagious disease could spread from the continent's equatorial regions to southern Africa for the first time.
Health officials in neighboring Botswana, Namibia and Zambia have been on alert since the weekend.
The actual cause of death remains to be determined. But confirmation that it was not Ebola has allowed emergency health teams gathered at Victoria Falls to lift quarantine restrictions imposed on staff who tended to the patient, Shashas said."
I just heard this on the radio
UNLICENSED DOCTOR (Sahid Sheik) administers 700 Flu Vaccines:
http://www.komotv.com/stories/29041.htm Norm Maleng has filed nine charges of practicing medicine without a license against a Bellevue registered counselor, Shahid Sheikh.
Maleng says Sheikh ran a Bellevue Corporation, Med Sources, Inc., and offered flu shots throughout the area, including two local television stations.
The prosecutor says Sheikh represented himself as a doctor, but he is not a medical doctor and has not been licensed in Washington state to provide inoculations.
Sheiks reportedly obtained the flu vaccine from a West Seattle doctor and either Sheikh or his employees vaccinated at least 700 people