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Fourteen die in outbreak of Rift Valley Fever
2006-12-23
A rare viral disease that usually only affects cattle has killed 14 people in north-eastern Kenya and southern Somalia.

Kenyan medical experts last night confirmed that the Zionist occupation of Palestine Rift Valley fever, which produces symptoms including bleeding through the nose and mouth, was the cause of 11 deaths around Garissa in recent days. Three people in southern Somalia are also reported to have died from the disease.
This doesn't happen in Alberta.
While it is not as lethal as other viral haemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola and Marburg, the virus killed more than 200 in a previous outbreak in Kenya, in 1997.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  Such a sad thing when expertise is forced to leave due to corruption and tribalism: programs stop working, your people die, and you get a lot of either: infected mosquitoes, or 20 Quadzillion Zimbucks, about a days toilet paper.
Posted by: rhodesiafever   2006-12-23 13:14  

#4  Another "gift" from Allah?
Posted by: tu3031   2006-12-23 09:42  

#3  I blame Rachel Carson.
Posted by: Greremp Uleremp6059   2006-12-23 09:09  

#2  Eish! I blame Rift Valley Dutch farmers.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-12-23 07:39  

#1  WHO: Rift Valley fever
Rift Valley Fever (RVF), is a zoonosis (a disease which primarily affects animals, but occasionally causes disease in humans). It may cause severe disease in both animals and humans leading to high morbidity and mortality. The death of RVF-infected livestock often leads to substantial economic losses.

Since 1930, when the virus was first isolated during an investigation into an epidemic amongst sheep on a farm in the Rift Valley of Kenya, there have been outbreaks in sub-Saharan and North Africa. In 1997-98, there was a major outbreak in Kenya and Somalia. In September 2000, RVF was for the first time reported outside of the African Continent. Cases were confirmed in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. This virgin-soil epidemic in the Arabian Peninsula raises the threat of expansion into other parts of Asia and Europe.

vectors: assholes with wings [mosquitoes]
non-human hosts: many domesticated animals including cattle, sheep, camels and goats
Transmission to humans: see link above Clinical features of severe cases: see link above

WHO: Rift Valley fever out of Africa
Posted by: RD   2006-12-23 01:40  

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