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I tried to ping you earlier on this article, but somehow your names ended up in the text of the message, so I'll try again, maybe this'll work.
They know what they didn't die of, but not what they did die of.

Initial tests showed Ibrahim had died of anthrax, but authorities later ruled that out and said more tests were needed to identify the cause of death.

Per my earlier post, unlike the Canadian reports, the Brazilians in Belem said the second test finding no exact anthrax germ may be due to deterioration or other effect from the passage of time.

Here's a report from Alagoas state:

Maceió already has first suspicious case of Sars

Member of the crew of ship dies in high-sea, with symptoms of Asian pneumonia; body is in the IML and will be submitted to the viral analysis EDNELSON FEITOSA and ANA MÁRCIA the Medical Institute Legal Estácio de Lima received, in the afternoon of yesterday, the corpse of the marine Bulgarian Todor Nadrev Petrov, 48 years, member of the crew of the ship cipriota Mike-M, that died, yesterday, in high-sea, with symptoms of the Asian pneumonia, the Respiratory Syndrome Severe Acute (Sars), between them, high fever, pains in the body and fatigue. Employees of the Williams Maritime Services, responsible company for the boat, had informed that the sailor embarked in Sofia, in Bulgaria, passing for some European ports, until if directing for Argentina. In Brazil, the ship passed for Rio De Janeiro and Recife, carrying a seasoning load, when one of its 23 members of the crew suffered the sudden evil and faleceu.

It has information, not confirmed, of that it was of another ship and had embarked in the Mike-M, in Pernambuco. The doctor of the Williams, Márcio Mota, informed, in the IML, that other sailors had disclosed that the Bulgarian complained of high fever and pains in the meetings, little before entering in eat. In the luggage of the sailor, the staff of the Anvisa found antibiotics.

Inspection the Mike-M must remain anchored about three kilometers of the beach per ten days, for order of the Sanitary Monitoring that it initiated, yesterday exactly, the inspection work. The concern of the sector of public health of the State still has for base information appeared in the wharf of the Port of Maceió, according to which, part of the members of the crew or the sailor dead had passed for Singapura, where the first cases of the Asian pneumonia had occurred.

The secretary-executive of Health, Alvaro Axe, determined immediate steps to investigate the causes of the death of Todor Andrev. For the secretary, it is little probable that the death has been for Asian pneumonia, but samples of harvested material will be sent for the Fiocruz, in Rio De Janeiro, for viral analysis. we?Estamos investigating the possibility of death for leptospirose, botulismo, sudden meningite, among others illnesses. It had a sudden death, in less 24-hour, after the presentation of symptoms as high peak of temperature, muscular pains in the inferior members and history of convulsion, the secretary told.

Of the point of view epidemiologist, he has preoccupying data: the member of the crew covered some airports, in less than ten days: in 25 of April, Todor left Sofia, in Bulgaria, for Zurich, was then for Rio De Janeiro and Recife, where it embarked in the cargo ship, with destination to Argentina.