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West Africa Ebola death toll rises to 467: WHO
 [Iran Press TV] The corpse count from a deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa has risen to 467, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.The UN health agency said on Tuesday that there have now been 759 confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola, which has affected Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The latest figures showed a 38-percent increase in the number of deaths and a 27-percent rise in the number of overall cases since the WHO's last update on June 24. The data comes shortly before a meeting in Ghana by 11 West African health ministers who are seeking to find a way to contain the deadliest outbreak of the virus in history. There is currently no known cure for Ebola, a form of hemorrhagic fever whose symptoms are diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding. The virus spreads through direct contact with infected blood, feces or sweat. It can also be spread through sexual contact or the unprotected handling of contaminated corpses. Ebola was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... in 1976 in an outbreak that killed 280 people. Posted by: Fred 2014-07-02 |
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