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CDC/WHO Team Responds to Deadly Outbreak
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 25th, 1999
In December 1998, reports came from southern Sudan that people were dying from a mysterious, fatal illness. Patients developed severe fever, bleeding, and jaundice. Fears that the disease was an Ebola-like viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) panicked local populations.
Within the three months ending January 1999, there had been more than 2,000 confirmed deaths and more than 20,000 cases spreading over a wide area. By March 1999 it became clear from patient...
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