Posted on 01/16/2018 1:42:30 PM PST by Red Badger
HEALTH bosses have confirmed they are facing an outbreak of the “eye-bleeding fever” after four people died of the suspected disease in weeks.
Uganda’s health ministry has today finally admitted it is facing the risk of a large-scale explosion of the viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF).
VHF causes victims to suffer a burning fever before beginning to bleed from orifices including their eyes, anuses and mouths.
It comes after a girl, nine, was reportedly killed by the infection Uganda, and three people died in neighbouring South Sudan of similar symptoms.
Uganda health minster Sarah Opendi confirmed emergency response teams are now being deployed to the districts of Nakaseke and Luweero.
She also identified the mystery disease, saying tests have revealed the infection is Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF).
Today, health minister Opendi said: "Results from Uganda Virus Research Institute tested positive for the Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever and negative for other viral Hemorrhagic Fevers like Ebola, Marburg, Rift Valley Fever and Sosua.”
The confirmation comes after just two weeks ago the Ugandan Health Ministry denied there was an outbreak.
Positive tests for CCHF came from samples taken from a 9-year-old paitent Kihwoko Hospital.
Experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) have already said they were monitoring for an outbreak after reports in South Sudan.
CCHF is spread to humans via tick bites or contact with raw meat and infected animal blood immediately after slaughter.
"CCHF outbreaks constitute a threat to public health services because of its epidemic potential, its high case fatality ratio (10-40%), its potential for nosocomial outbreaks and the difficulties in treatment and prevention,” WHO’s description of the virus reads.
WHO first raised fears of a VHF outbreak in central Africa with a report of a number of deaths in South Sudan.
A pregnant woman, and two teenagers all succumbed to a mystery infection along with a number of animals.
However, it is not confirmed whether these deaths are also from CCHF or a separate similar strain of VHF.
Outbreak in the nation could be catastrophic – with South Sudan bordered by Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, the Congo and the Central African Republic.
There were fears up to 60 people could be infected, and are each undergoing analysis by a team from the Sudanese health ministry and WHO.
In a recent report, WHO wrote: "The outbreak of suspected viral haemorrhagic fever in South Sudan could rapidly evolve, and critical information including laboratory confirmation of the etiology of disease is needed to direct response efforts.
"Strengthened surveillance in affected human and animal populations is needed to facilitate rapid detection of human and animal cases and response.
“Strengthened capacity to clinically manage any new cases is also needed in the affected area.”
Bring enough of them into the country and we all get to know what a s******e country looks like.
Africa, huah! What are you good for?
Sh-t hole. Hell hole. Incubator hole!
Have there been any incidents of this eye bleeding disease reported in Norway?
Shithole country problems. Soon to be USA problems. If the Rats get their way.
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Yup.
I expect it to show up in minniapolis with the next plane load of somali chain migrants
That was the only drug that CDC thought MIGHT be effective against the Ebola virus. Don't remember if it worked or not.
There was a serum developed, using antibodies from a survivor (a very limited amount, used on infected American volunteers). It worked in the few cases it was tried.
This info is from memory, from a movie I saw last year about Samaritan's Purse.
LOLOLOLOL!!!!!
If your bleeding from the eyes and $hithole you probably live in a $hithole.
I believe that Lake Victoria is the Alpha and Omega of the Earth- Many/most of these hemorrhagic diseases originate there. A truly great book about them is A Coming Plague, by Laurie Garrett.
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases-1994-10-01/dp/B019L5BECW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1516142462&sr=8-2&keywords=The+Coming+Plague
Historical Review: Megadrought And Megadeath In 16th Century Mexico (Hemorrhagic Fever)
"The epidemic of cocoliztli from 1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 million to 15 million people, or up to 80% of the native population of Mexico (Figure 1). In absolute and relative terms the 1545 epidemic was one of the worst demographic catastrophes in human history, approaching even the Black Death of bubonic plague, which killed approximately 25 million in western Europe from 1347 to 1351 or about 50% of the regional population."
"The cocoliztli epidemic from 1576 to 1578 cocoliztli epidemic killed an additional 2 to 2.5 million people, or about 50% of the remaining native population."
If it can be spread by ticks, what about fleas?
It’s only a matter of time before one of these
get loose in a major population.
You're being killed in some kind of supernatural way.
You're demonic.
You're a remorseful vampire who can't cry normal tears.
You're about to vomit your intestines
You're a holy relic
You've just seen a thread on FR about Helen Thomas
You've been stabbed in the eye with any number of objects.
You forgot. You've been playing with a BB gun.
Great song
Reported yesterday: “A passenger on an international flight with a confirmed case of measles arrived at O’Hare International Airport, potentially exposing others at the airport to the highly contagious disease, CBS Chicago reports.”
No word where this flight originated. It is obvious that the reporting of this incident is being controlled. Every report on this mystery passanger has almost the same exact wording: “the passenger, who was infectious on that day, arrived on an international flight.”
No way is the word going out that people from s-hole nations are bringing communicable diseases to America.
Agreed...
“didn’t they just prove that the incas were wiped out by an eye bleeding virus... by scraping dna off of teeth of bodies found from 1560s.”
NO. They are not able to obtain viral RNA from ancient tooth pulp- only DNA. What they found in the bodies from graves of known victims of the pandemic, and what they suspected wiped out the Mexicans a few years after Cortes arrived, was DNA from a virulently communicable strain of salmonella that causes parathyroid fever.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Unless Trump Tweets it...
Touche!
But that is a tick borne disease.
Or your brother has been playing with a BB gun.
Or you’ve been arkancided and shots to both eyes will be deemed a suicide.
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