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Mystery illness claims 12 lives in Liberia
CNN ^ | 05/01/2017 | Susan Scutti and Bijan Hosseini,

Posted on 05/01/2017 7:35:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Symptoms of the illness include headache, diarrhea, vomiting and confusion, according to Fadela Chaib, a spokeswoman for the WHO. Health officials immediately tested the victims for Ebola, yellow fever and Lassa fever, but they were all ruled out.

Most of the ill attended a funeral for a Christian leader in Greenville on April 22.

... According to Tom Skinner, a spokesman for the CDC, "timing of the events, duration between disease onset and death, higher case fatality among children are all suggestive of ingestion or exposure to a contaminant."

Still, the CDC remains vigilant for other possible causes.

Several cases have tested positive for malaria and have been treated accordingly, Skinner said. He added that a CDC team is in Liberia and working closely with the government to provide additional support.

According to George, "We are still not aware of what killed them." Liberian health care providers are conducting new tests and are now "relying on the international community to help determine what the illness may be."

"We don't want to be specific as to the funeral being the reason for the death. We are still investigating and putting our acts together to know what happened," George said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: liberia; mysteryillness

1 posted on 05/01/2017 7:35:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Motaba the monkey did it


2 posted on 05/01/2017 7:43:45 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: BenLurkin
Schmuck Schumer is already preparing legislation to bring them here.
3 posted on 05/01/2017 7:44:27 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (I don't see a possum.)
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Obama would have had them shipped to major airports for “study”.


5 posted on 05/01/2017 7:50:31 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: BenLurkin

They all attended a Christian funeral IN AFRICA? The authorities should also be running toxicology tests -— Muslims are always coming up with new ways of eliminating Christians.


6 posted on 05/01/2017 7:53:09 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison)
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To: SpaceBar

And he sent the 101st and 82nd Airborne to Sierra Leon to fight Ebola.


7 posted on 05/01/2017 7:55:05 PM PDT by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: BenLurkin

I smell muslims, and/or the UniParty, behind this.


8 posted on 05/01/2017 8:14:12 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: BenLurkin

I am in Sierra Leone and this caused quite a stir here in Freetown. But it really does look like a bad case of food poisoning. And they do not need any Muslims helping out, the food handling methods are quite sufficient all by themselves to allow this to happen.

I have never been in such a dirty place, even after three tours in AFG.


10 posted on 05/02/2017 3:22:25 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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My son went to Nigeria to do QC on one of their projects. He said everything was grossly overcooked to kill all the “bugs”. And they were in a walled compound with food that was shipped in. Then he went to a ship and found the same thing.


11 posted on 05/02/2017 5:38:40 AM PDT by TStro (Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.)
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