Monday, May 22, 2006

Don't worry about Snakes on a plane take two

Don't worry about Snakes on a plane...worry about Ebola on a plane...

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Link one says only fever, headache, nausea, and convusions...
Second link mentions she was vomiting and bleeding...
However, there is no Ebola in Joburg...

Only two reports, both in UK tabloids.
Ebola causes massive bleeding from all orifices...so one hopes this is not Ebola...
There are other hemorrhagic fevers...one nurse I worked with in Liberia actually survived Marburg virus.
There have been outbreaks of Marburg in Angola last year...And Dengue fever comes to mind, but doesn't kill so fast.
African Muti (medicine) can also cause hemorrage and coma, but not fever...and other illnesses can cause DIC, the blood to clot and then not clot so you bleed all over, or thrombocytopenia, where you don't clot at all....Thrombocytopenia can also be caused by poison, radiation and drug allergy (the last case I treated was an allergy to Quinine that she took for leg cramps)...
No reports in the MSM however, just the trashy tabloid...so it might have the credibility of "clinton marries alien"...

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