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Deadly Ebola Fever outbreak hits Congo
Embola fever has no treatment and no cure. The fever is so deadly it kills most everyone who is infected. Some patients, who doctors believed where infected, began improving after given antibiotics, which leads them to believe shigella or typhoid has also broken out in the region.
Over the span of four months, at least 167 people have died and 400 have been infected. All patients are being kept in the same room which puts the patients with shigella or typhoid at risk of contracting Ebola. Ebola is contracted from direct contact with blood or secretions of an infected person. It can also be contracted from objects that have come in contact with the infected fluids.
“There’s no way we can be sure at this time how many cases are shigella and how many cases are Ebola,” said World Health Organization spokesman, Gregory Hartl.
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