Ping
I don't know! We haven't had an update on the numbers for a couple of days. The slap on a blackout?
I found some new numbers on Yahoo, an AFP article that I posted the web address to, on this thread:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050415/hl_afp/angolahealthvirustoll_050415190022
If this doesn't show up as a link, would someone please make it do that? Sorry about my skills.
Anyway, the article seems to say that there have been 230 deaths, and 250 patients are being treated.
"LUANDA (AFP) - The death toll from the Marburg virus epidemic rose to 230 in Angola with the northern province of Uige registering the overwhelming majority of fatalities, the health ministry and the World Health Organisation said.
"Health officials are treating a total of 250 cases of the killer Ebola-like bug that has claimed 211 lives in Uige, the epicenter of the outbreak that was first detected in October, according to a statement from the ministry and the WHO."
Those are certainly new numbers, but consistent with "watching 150 families" etc.
Do you read it the same way I do?
This seems to be a nasty one. Has a very high mortality rate.
There is a morbid level of 'good' news in this... inasmuch as a virus that kills the host more quickly and leaves few survivors will tend not to spread as widely as the virus that kills more slowly and leaves many surviving carriers.
Not good for those that get it, though. Seems to me that Hemorragic fever of any sort is just about the worst way to go there is.