Word: flu
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...likely to contract the disease. In fact, in specific previous outbreaks, up to a quarter of deaths have come from medical personnel infected by their patients. In the laboratory, Ebola has been shown to be transmittable in aerosol form (i.e. through the air, just as a cold or a flu can be transmitted in a sneeze or a cough) but no human infection has been confirmed to have occurred through air-borne particles...
...tell if you have contracted the dread virus? Well, the rest of this column goes out to all the hypochondriacs out there. Quite perniciously, the first symptoms of the infection in the early stages are similar to those of the common flu. The CDC warns that most stricken with Ebola display high fever, headache, muscle aches, stomach pain, fatigue and diarrhea, and some patients also complain of sore throat, hiccups, rash and red itchy eyes within a few days post-infection. Of course, these symptoms could easily be confused with numerous every-day maladies (from the common flu...
...when your throat becomes scratchy, your eyes itchy, your head throbbing next month in the middle of flu season, how will you know that you will recover? Well, one way to give your fears full rein is to get a flu shot that will be offered in the dining halls the next few weeks. Then if you start sniffling, aching and hiccuping, you can demand to be placed in a negative-pressure hospital suite (standard procedure for infectious Ebola patients) while doctors perform myriad blood tests and no doubt confirm their suspicions: You have a strain of flu that...
...April dip was for fools. Were you one of them? If so, you had plenty of company. For most of a decade, investors have enriched themselves by plowing money into the market every time it stumbled. Whatever the downward catalyst, from Yeltsin's coup to the Asian flu, prices routinely rebounded...
...Health workers in the Gulu and Kitgum districts are quarantining anyone manifesting the flu symptoms, diarrhea and vomiting that mark the onset of the disease, and have banned the communal cleansing ritual at the end of funerals. It's heartbreaking work for the medical personnel because the disease can't be treated, only contained. And the squalid refugee camps of northern Uganda - established to house people fleeing attacks by a sociopathic guerrilla movement calling itself the Lord's Resistance Army - are a fertile breeding ground, given their poor sanitation. Whereas a previous outbreak in the Congo in 1995 was ultimately...