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To: null and void; Tilted Irish Kilt

PING.


10 posted on 11/05/2017 11:09:21 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Environ-MENTAL-ism is MENTAL)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
INFECTIOUS Disease Ping ( Marburg - Kenya-Uganda border in Turkana )
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Madagascar Plague (update - 127 fatalities)

The disease, known as Marburg virus disease (MVD), is similar to Ebola and can be lethal in up to 90 per cent of cases.
Emergency screening has begun at the Kenya-Uganda border in Turkana after three members of the same family died of the disease in Uganda.
Agent "0" identified as a hunter, living in a cave where bats reside.

The news comes as Madagascar faces a deadly outbreak of plague (bacterial), which has already claimed the lives of 127 people.
WHO is concerned about spread to adjoining neighboring countries.

H/T Tolerance Sucks Rocks & bitt

59 posted on 11/05/2017 2:55:48 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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