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Health

New killer virus makes an appearance

15 October 2008

An outbreak of what appears to be a new haemorrhagic fever has brought home how frightening little we know about deadly African viruses. Three people have died and a fourth was ill as Âé¶¹´«Ã½ went to press.

In early September a 36-year-old woman living near Lusaka in Zambia fell ill and was airlifted to South Africa, where she died. Alarms were raised when a paramedic and a nurse who tended her died two weeks later. The latest person to succumb is a nurse who tended the paramedic.

On Sunday, South Africa’s (NICD) announced…

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