[StillProud2BeFree]

Crimean Congo Fever naturally occurs in Afghanistan. According to the information at http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact208.html (map is from http://www.arches.uga.edu/~icund/Crimean_Congo_Fever.html)

CRIMEAN-CONGO HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a viral haemorrhagic fever of the Nairovirus group. Although primarily a zoonosis, sporadic cases and outbreaks of CCHF affecting humans do occur. The disease is endemic in many countries in Africa, Europe and Asia, and during 2001, cases or outbreaks have been recorded in Kosovo, Albania, Iran, Pakistan, and South Africa.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Am I the 10K post?

[FairOpinion]

Thanks for the info -- I had no idea it's so widespread.

It's amazing more people aren't dying of it, since, as I understand there is no cure.

[FairOpinion]

In the meantime, I did find one of the sources about AQ & ebola:

"Testimony in a 1999 Egyptian trial of 107 suspected terrorists suggest that the al-Qaeda network might have negotiated to purchase biological weapons such as anthrax and the Ebola virus. A leading terrorist, associated with al Qaeda, said to a reporter during the trial that Osama bin Laden and his top aide, Islamic Jihad leader Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, had bought both biological and chemical agents and made a list of 100 U.S. and Israeli targets for such attacks.

The court was told that suspected terrorists connected to bin Laden had admitted to buying germ agents by mail for $3,865. Samples of the Ebola virus and salmonella bacteria were offered for sale to the bin Laden associates by factories in Eastern Europe. Another supplier in Southeast Asia made an agreement with the terrorists to sell "samples of anthrax", while a lab in the Czech Republic agreed to sell botulinum toxin for $7,500."

http://www.biohazardnews.net/binladen.shtml