Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:02:22
From: M. Cosgriff <mcosgriff@hotmail.com>
Source: Electronic Telegraph, Wed 20 Dec 2000 [edited]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=004022714228425&rtmo=r9XF2aQX&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/et/00/12/20/wbul19.html#go2
Pakistan Denies Ebola Fever Report
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Pakistan's Federal Health Secretary, Ejaz Rahim, has denied a news item
published in The Telegraph on 1 Dec 2000, reporting that Ebola virus had
killed 9 people in Pakistan. "Not a single case of Ebola virus [infection]
has been reported nor have any lives been claimed by it in Pakistan," said
Mr Rahim. There were said to have been "a couple" of cases of Crimean-Congo
hemorrhagic fever virus in Karachi.
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[Ebola hemorrhagic fever has not occurred outside the African continent so
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Previous reports posted in ProMED-mail of an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever
in Baluchistan, contained references (edited out) from local sources to an
"Ebola-like disease". Extensive enquiries by ProMED-mail at that time
failed to substantiate these statements. The evidence is consistent with
the occurrence of an outbreak due to Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus.
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