Ebola outbreak in Zaire

Sir Joseph of Greenwood jgood at nmsu.edu
Fri May 12 16:24:58 EST 1995


On 11 May 1995, S. M. Fitzgerald wrote:

> 05-10-95, 9:46 AM:  Reuters reports that an Italian missionary says a
> fever with Ebola-like symptoms wiped out two villages in the Azande
> region of southern Sudan last year.  The missionary told Reuters that
> about 200 people died in the the Sudan's Nzara district last year; he
> also said that Nzara had a similar outbreak years before.

Now, it is statements like that that spook me.  The tales of various 
villages that have been wiped out.

How many more have been / will be wiped out?

Filovirus contamination _may_ be more expansive than we know.

But, this is must a maybe.  

joseph good
jgood at nmsu.edu




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