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More on the South African mystery disease

Posted on October 08, 2008

Via allAfrica.com, a report from The Times of Zambia: Zambia: It's Not Ebola! Excerpt:The woman from Zambia who died in South Africa from a mysterious disease was in fact afflicted by cerebral edema and multi-organ failure, putting to rest suspicions that she was hit by the deadly ebola, experts have confirmed.Five experts who carried out the investigations on two of the four deceased people revealed that the woman could have died from suspected viral infection from a tick bite that she incurred in Lusaka.Experts from Specialty Emergency Services (SES) Corpmed Medical Centre (CMC) and Wilderne...

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