Yellow fever is one of several infectious diseases that can cause a hemorrhagic fever, a fever with organ failure resulting in bleeding complications.
Other viruses that can mimic Ebola disease are lassa fever, and dengue fever.
Dengue fever is something Floridians worry about from time to time. It’s been out of the news for a while, I assume it not a problem now. Never knew it could mimic Ebola. Thanks for the information Mother Abigail.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 6, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Nasdaq:TKMR) (TSX:TKM), a leading developer of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, today announced that it has received a temporary stop-work order from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) with respect to Tekmira’s TKM-Ebola program. Other contractors have received similar notices as the DoD is under recently imposed funding constraints.
Nine people have died in an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Health Minister Felix Kabangue said on Saturday.
The deaths were among 11 “probable or confirmed” cases detected in the town of Isiro in the north of the country, the minister was quoted as saying in a statement released by the World Health Organisation.
Teams of doctors from the health ministry, the WHO, aid group Doctors Without Borders and the US-based Centres for Disease Control and Prevention were treating those infected, the statement added.
In western Uganda, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the border with DR Congo, 16 people have died from the virus since the start of July, although authorities say the outbreak there has been brought under control.
Looks like it is still on simmer...