Source: Electronic Telegraph
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/04/wref04.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/10/04/ixhome.html
Published: 04/10/2001 Author: Tim Butcher in Quetta
THE largest outbreak in history of a highly contagious disease that
causes patients to bleed to death from every orifice was confirmed
yesterday on Pakistan's frontier with Afghanistan.
At least 75 people have caught the disease so far and eight have died.
An isolation ward screened off by barbed wire has been set up in the
Pakistani city of Quetta, and an international appeal has been launched
for help.
Evidence suggests the outbreak of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever
emanates from within Afghanistan, raising fears of an epidemic if
millions of refugees flee across the frontier into Pakistan.
CCHF has similar effects to the ebola virus. Both viruses damage
arteries, veins and other blood vessels and lead to the eventual
collapse of major organs.
As one doctor put it, a patient suffering from haemorrhagic fever
"literally melts in front of your eyes".
-Gel
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