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Date Posted: 13:12:14 10/25/01 Thu
Author: Don Barone
Subject: Re: Join the Army: Be a Guinea Pig
In reply to: MePHiSTo 's message, "Re: Join the Army: Be a Guinea Pig" on 10:55:40 10/25/01 Thu

Sources:

6. Tim Butcher "Ebola-Style Virus Sweeps Afghan Border," News
Telegraph, October 4, 2001

5. "Ebola Style Virus Hits Pakistan." BBC News, October 4, 2001

" ... It is interesting then to note that there is an unusual twist to this situation that the American press, and most of the European press, have almost completely ignored. As the News Telegraph reported: "The largest outbreak in history of a highly contagious disease that causes patients to bleed to death from every orifice was confirmed yesterday on Pakistan's frontier with Afghanistan. At least 75 people have caught the disease so far and eight have died. An isolation ward screened off by barbed wire has been set up in the Pakistani city of Quetta ...

"Evidence suggests the outbreak of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever emanates from within Afghanistan, raising fears of an epidemic if millions of refugees flee across the frontier into Pakistan. CCHF has similar effects to the ebola virus. Both viruses damage arteries, veins and other blood vessels and lead to the eventual collapse of major organs. As one doctor put it, a patient suffering from haemorrhagic fever 'literally melts in front of your eyes.'" (6)

The location and the rather curious timing of this outbreak, the largest in history, raise serious questions about its origin. As Dr. Taj Mohammad of the Fatima Jinnah Chest and General Hospital in Quetta told a reporter: "It's unheard of - very unusual. There's a real risk of an epidemic among Afghan refugees." (5) "

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Re: Join the Army: Be a Guinea Pig -- MePHiSTo, 02:57:56 10/26/01 Fri