Congo slaps quarantine on Ebola outbreak area

Congo slaps quarantine on Ebola outbreak area
Tue 11 Sep 2007, 13:24 GMT

Damn, wonder if I'll get sent to the Congo..

By Lubunga Bya'Ombe

KINSHASA, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Authorities placed two towns in southern Democratic Republic of Congo in quarantine on Tuesday to contain an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever, a deadly disease for which there is no treatment.

Health authorities in Congo's southern province of Kasai Occidental had reported more than 160 deaths among 352 sick people in the past four months due to a mystery fever.

Five samples sent to a laboratory in Gabon and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the presence of the Ebola virus, Health Minister Victor Makuenge Kaput said late on Monday...[more]

Glory Dayz...

"Omg, that trip will be in my mind forever! I will never forget how we missed our train back from Prague...and we had to transfer like 4 times in the middle of the night, with no one speaking English, a man with a drug-sniffing dog and a crowbar in the train car, and the urine smell on my sneakers from the pee-soaked bathroom floor! Oh, and how you got thrown in a Czech jail when we slept our way through the border...and getting locked in Aschewitz! Do you have the video from that trip??? I would LOVE to see it!"

We'll they'll pass you by, Glorhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.italic.gif
insert italic tagsy Days..:)