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Article: The strains of Ebola
- Article from:
- Canadian Medical Association. Journal
- Article date:
- May 6, 2008
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Inside tiny Kikyo Health Centre nestled high in the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda, a sheet on the office wall entitled "Weekly epidemiological cases," tracks incoming patients. The list gives testimony to the challenges faced when a 10-bed facility with no doctor on staff has to cope with medical conditions that, in Western countries, rarely surface anywhere but in text books: acute flaccid paralysis, rabies, dysentery, Guinea worm, meningitis.
And now, added to the bottom of the list, in big black block letters, is "EBOLA."
This health centre, reached only by foot across the Bwamba Pass or by an arduous mountain drive from Bundibugyo town, was the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak late in 2007 ...