Subj: ProMed Plague? Date: 99-02-18 10:09:27 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Seer7) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) UNIDENTIFIED DEATHS - AFGHANISTAN (BADAKHSHAN): REQUEST FOR INFO *********************************************************************** A ProMED-mail post http://www.healthnet.org/programs/promed.html Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 From: Dorothy Preslar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: ITAR-TASS, 15 Feb 1999 An outbreak of a disease, yet undiagnosed, has affected the population of the Darwaz district of Badakhshan, Afghanistan, which borders on Tajikistan. According to Afghan diplomatic sources in Dushanbe, the epidemic, which is characterized by high temperature, digestion problems and gut colic, has already claimed the lives of several hundred people aged between one and 70 years. The outbreak of the epidemic has been confirmed for ITAR-TASS by the chairman of the Tajik Committee on Emergency Situations and Civil Defence, Mahmadruzi Iskandarov. He said that, according to his employees in the mountainous Badakhshan [Autonomous] Region of Tajikistan, bordering on Afghanistan, "a disease, which according to preliminary symptoms could be a plague, has been raging" in the border area for several days... ProMED-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
