It seems as though an increasing number of global news stories have been surfacing that involve mystery illnesses.
Here is yet another...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to take blood samples from
members of an Army unit after a soldier in the unit died from an Ebola-like virus.
Dr. Jim Radike, an expert in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Role 3 Trauma Hospital at Kandahar Air Field, told The Washington Times
that Sgt. Robert David Gordon, 22, from River Falls, Ala., died Sept. 16 from what turned out to be Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever after he was
bitten by a tick. The virus is transmitted by infected blood and can be carried by ticks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Symptoms of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever include sudden fever, dizziness, neck pain, aching muscles, soreness in the eyes and sensitivity to light.
Early on, nausea, vomiting and sore throat occur.
The virus incubation period depends on how the virus was acquired. If the infection is via tick bite, the incubation period is roughly one to three
days, with a maximum of nine days, Dr. Radike said. If the illness is not caught early, it is often fatal, he said. The mortality rate is 30 percent,
according to the CDC.
www.washingtontimes.com...
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reply to post by MOFreemason
Not exactly a mystery illness.
The report says he contracted the virus from a tick bite. There are lots of dangerous viruses out there my friend.
Still not good to hear about.
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It's not an airborne pathogen, same thing I read - contracted from a bug bite and its not an unknown virus. Crimean-congo according to a Dr on the
Ukraine swine flu thread.
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