Deadly Angola virus identified
Nigger News Service
Rare virus blamed for 96 deaths
By Zoe Eisenstein in Luanda
March 23, 2005
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=2855147
AN illness that had killed nearly 100 people in northern Angola was
identified today as the rare Marburg virus, which is from the same family as
the deadly Ebola disease, state and UN officials said.
Described as "very virulent" and "very contagious" and transmitted through
bodily fluids, the haemorrhagic fever threatens to spread from the northern
Uige province to other parts of the country.
"This is a possibility. The incubation period is 21 days so we must
reinforce the surveillance in neighbouring provinces and especially in
Luanda," Vice Minister for Health Jose Van Dunem said.
About 107 people in Uige have fallen victim to Marburg, for which there is
no cure, with the number of deaths attributed to the epidemic now standing
at 96.
Experts last week ruled out Ebola - one of the world's deadliest diseases -
but had not yet pinpointed the disease that struck in Uige, about 225km
north of Luanda.
With a health infrastructure shattered by a devastating civil war, Angola is
facing monumental challenges trying to combat the virus.
"The mortality rate is around 30 per cent in good hospitals. In hospitals
like ours in Uige where the quality is not so high we have a higher (rate
of) mortality," Mr Van Dunem said.
"We are trying to do our best by using our national capacity and asking for
international support."
The World Health Organisation and Atlanta's Centre for Disease Control
(CDC), which diagnosed the virus, have sent in experts, and medical
non-governmental organisations have also given their support, he said.
Portugal has already warned its nationals not to travel to Uige but Mr Van
Dunem said the Angolan Government would not issue similar warnings.
"The illness is contracted by secretions. If you don't touch an infected
person, you don't risk being contaminated. So it doesn't make sense to
(stop) a person from going there," he said.
The Marburg virus is characterised by high fever, headaches, nausea, with
vomiting and diarrhoea accompanied by blood. Most of the dead are children
under five.
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