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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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?