A Season of Hemorrhagic Fevers

Body Horrors
By Rebecca Kreston
Nov 24, 2012 5:50 AMNov 20, 2019 5:20 AM

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Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have been bedeviled by viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks this year. Since the summer, Ebola and Marburg have appeared throughout the two verdant countries killing dozens of people.

An Ebola outbreak in western Uganda began in early July, another Ebola outbreak materialized in eastern DR Congo in August, and then Marburg made an appearance in south-western Uganda as well as in the capital Kampala in October. Last month, Uganda finally declared the country free of hemorrhagic fevers after three months of battling these seemingly omnipresent sanguinary viruses. And then Ebola appeared yet again in Luweero, a village located just 47 miles from the capital. It has been an incredibly psychologically and financially taxing period for the two countries.

(Confused on the timeline of events? I certainly was! But the WHO is here to help with a chronology of Ebola outbreaks here and Marburg outbreaks here.)

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