Ebola Outbreak Kills 13 In Uganda

The BBC reports that an outbreak of the Ebola virus has killed 13 in Uganda, and infected seven more. "The health ministry says emergency measures are in place to deal with the outbreak, which began in late June but has only just been confirmed as Ebola. The cases have been reported in Kibaale district, about 170km (100 miles) to the west of the capital Kampala. ... Ebola is one of the most virulent diseases in the world. It is spread by close personal contact, and kills up to 90% of those who become infected. There is no vaccine for the virus. Symptoms include sudden onset of fever, weakness, headache, vomiting and impaired kidneys. The first victim of this outbreak was a pregnant woman."

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wtf is this article doing here?

[Nyder]

I don't come to slashdot for news I can get everywhere else.

This has nothing to do with tech nor nerds.

Soulskill, you need to rethink the job you are doing here, because you fucked up.

Re:wtf is this article doing here?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, Malda sure has you trained well. He's off trying to make himself look interesting on Reddit and abandoned all of you, yet you're still making excuses for the utter bullshit that gets posted here.

Kudos for being another worker bee in Slashdot's hivemind. I suspect Malda's glad to be rid of this place because with people like you populating it, it'll never change. I'm sure in your surpreme arrogance you probably believe that's for the best.

It isn't.

Re:wtf is this article doing here?

[bhagwad]

Given the fact that Ebola is:

a) Highly contagious
b) 70-90% fatal

It's scary enough to be on Slashdot.

Re:wtf is this article doing here?

[Nyder]

I don't come to slashdot for news I can get everywhere else.

This has nothing to do with tech nor nerds.

Soulskill, you need to rethink the job you are doing here, because you fucked up.

Uh, there's definitely a big science angle to disease outbreaks. So they problem is...?

Did you read the article? I did, it mentions nothing about science at all. Just normal shit. Outbreak, don't know why, people died, have to help, hopefully the help doesn't get it.

I don't care if I get modded Troll, my rep is so good here it doesn't hurt me. But it doesn't change the fact that this post really doesn't belong here.

Now if it talked about a new breakthru to help the outbreak, cool. But it doesn't.

It doesn't even talk about any science.

So again, what is it doing here?

Re:wtf is this article doing here?

[Nyder]

Kudos for being broad-minded and mature. But we ought to be old enough to not feed the trolls. The imbecile has already been modded to oblivion. All's well with slashdot.

This imbecile has more rep then you ever will have, modding me troll doesn't change anything. And it didn't change that the article has nothing to do with science, nerds, or news we need to hear. They don't even know how they are going to fight it, they don't even have a vaccine for it.

That is news? Of course we don't have a vaccine for it. We spend all our money fighting terrorism everywhere, spending 100's of billions of dollars on wars.

It will be news when that changes and the governments decides to start spending money on how to help people instead of helping the corporations get as much money from people as they can.

Re:Sounds like a minor outbreak

[matunos]

Or they can kill some gays. Let's see which they choose.

Re:The irony with Ebola

[Anonymous Coward]

What we need is a deadly virus (like Ebola) that is airborne, and spreads fast, and is tied to a genetic marker only on white people. I.e. the virus will only infect, and kill, white people. Cleanse the world!

Failing that, we could just shoot them all.