[Mother Abigail]

No one knows how many cases there are...

Mobile surveillance operations in Uige have ceased because of damage to vehicles and threats of violence.  It is unclear if health care workers have been killed because of the unrest, but clearly contact tracing has been limited in the Uige, which is the epicenter of the outbreak. 

Therefore management by contact tracing and quarantine will be difficult.  The lack of survivors has also led to relatives hiding sick patients because no one has come out of the hospital alive.  However, care by untrained and unprotected relatives leads to further transmission.  This transmission has now reached Luanda, Angola's capital.

The 3 million residents of Luanda will get increasingly concerned as the virus spreads in Luanda and the number dead increase.  The lack of any survivors creates more suspicion about the motives of health care workers and those trying to monitor and quarantine contacts of infected patients.

[KoRn]

I'm by no means an authority on this, and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but what jumps out at me is this disease has a longer incubation period than the Ebola Virus.

The Ebola virus, and others like it kill so fast it doesn't spread very far geographically. Since this disease, being more lethal, and having potential to spread outside of a limited geographic area; we could have a huge problem getting ready to go down.

Who cares though. The Micheal Jackson case is underway, and we shouldn't be paying attention to anything else!

[mjtobias]

This sounds very serious.

Quarantine Angola and all other neighboring countries, for crying out loud!!!

This disease is liable to spread and infect the whole of Europe and the rest of humanity.

And, what are these idiotic Europeans doing there? Get out! They can take care of their own.