15 dead in Panama from unknown disease!

www.panama-guide.com...

Been skitting around the web looking at holidays, and some one on another forum sent me this! It seems that its not known to any of the panamanian authorities / medical staff, but their hedging on it not being contagious!

www.panama-guide.com...

a bit more about the symptoms... sounding nasty what ever it is!

Oh and I cannot find any other main stream news at the minute to place here...any more links would be appreciated.

In the article they state that they are assuming it is contagious. Sounds serious to me.

Hmmm, interesting. Especially as I live quite close in Costa Rica! I have included a link to story where the same thing happened in 2000.

www.freerepublic.com...

The cases (according to the article) are only found within one hospital.

So it's something at that location and may or may not be higly contageous.

It's concentrated to the hospital. Sounds like a super resistant bug gone wild.
I think as these bacteria or infections grow and become more and more resistant to antibiotics it will eventually become a mutant form of disease..

I ask a Dr today here in the UK about identifieing diseases that have mutated.

It all boils down to this - if its recognised by any of the experts in the area it could be a local mega mutation ie a vancomycin resistant staph A infection ect. The fact that the CDC has had to be called in from the USA seems to point to some thing unknown, and also some thing that may be highly contagious / virulent.

What ever it is, now the CDC has turned up, expect this to go very quiet!