More Morbidity

It's Back!!

Huh. Fifty yrs. since the first reporting.

The first symptoms are usually fever, sore throat, muscle pain, and headaches. These are usually followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, hepatic and renal dysfunction, at which point some people begin to bleed both internally and externally. The disease causes a mortality rate of anywhere between 25 and 90%, averaging out at approximately 50%. The viral species involved and timing of treatment play a critical role in its prognosis. Death is often due to shock from fluid loss, and typically occurs between 6 and 16 days after the first symptoms appear.

The viruses have caused intermittent outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa since 1976 when the disease was first reported.

I hope you-know-who's cutbacks in American aid are responsible for this & help it make its way to these shores.