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Second Strain Of Ebola Identified In The Congo: Mortality Rate At 71 Percent
 [BREITBART] The world may be facing two deadly Ebola outbreaks, now a new strain of the virus has been 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... (DRC), which so far has killed 71 percent of those infected. The virus in the DRC, which is nearly 2,300 miles away from the most eastern extent of the much larger West-African outbreak has been studied by a joint French-Canadian team of virologists for the World Health Organisation who confirmed that it was distinct, sharing only 96.8 percent of genetic material: "The complete genome sequence of the virus responsible... confirms that it is a virus Ebola species but it shows that the Congolese strain is different from Africa West". Posted by: Fred 2014-10-17 |
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