Copyrighted Image? DMCA | An Ebola outbreak in western Uganda has killed at least 14 people and put the country on edge. Why the presence of an infected person in the country's capital, Kampala, is so worrying -- and why it could be a rehearsal for the next great pandemic. Perhaps 1,850 people have been diagnosed with Ebola hemorrhagic fever since the virus was first identified 36 years ago in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (To put that number in perspective, more than 24,000 people fall ill from tuberculosis each day.) Still, Ebola has a grip on the public imagination that far exceeds the danger it actually poses -- in part because of those 1,850 sick people, some 1,200 went on to die. And the deaths are rarely easy -- Ebola can cause severe fever, muscle pain, weakness, vomiting, diarrhea and unstoppable bleeding. There is no treatment and no vaccine. |
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At healthland.time.com
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