EBOLA – TWO MALAWI SOLDIERS QUARANTINED There are fears that the deadly Ebola virus might have entered Malawi as two of the country’s soldiers were sent back from a peace keeping mission in DRC after they fell sick. Sources have revealed that the two soldiers have been quarantined at Kamuzu Barracks and are recieving treatment seperately. The Malawi Defence force has since kept the development a secret to avoid causing alarm in the country. Ebola outbreak in DR Congo An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year came from a different source than the epidemic raging across West Africa, scientists say that Even though the two deadly Ebola outbreaks have separate animal origins, the report in the New u Journal of Medicine nevertheless raises concern about the emergence of the often fatal hemorrhagic fever across the African continent. Ebola was first identified in 1976, and had returned in waves. The latest outbreak in West Africa is history’s largest, killing more than 4,400 people since the beginning of the year. A separate, smaller outbreak in the DRC began over the summer, and has killed 49 people of the 69 believed infected between late July and October 7, the NEJM report said. As of October 9, 2014, there have been 68 cases of Ebola virus disease reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In total, 49 deaths have been reported. This outbreak is unrelated to the current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.
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