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Thursday, October 4, 2001
Is Ebola Epidemic in Afghanistan bin Laden’s Work?
What has been described as the largest outbreak in history of lethal Ebola is killing Pakistanis in a city that borders on Afghanistan, raising the possibility that the epidemic is the work of Usama bin Laden.
The disease, which causes victims to bleed to death with blood oozing out of every bodily oriface, is rampaging through the Pakistani city of Quetta. According to Britain’s Daily Telegraph at least 75 people have been felled by the outbreak, and eight victims have died.
All the victims were either recent arrivals from Afghanistan or lived close to the frontier between that nation and Pakistan.
According to Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher, there is evidence that the outbreak started in Afghanistan which harbors terrorist chieftain bin Laden, known to be seeking biological weapons for use against America and the West.
Writing from Quetta, Butcher described the disease as Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, which mimics the Ebola virus in severity and effect. Both damage blood vessels and lead to the collapse of vital body organs.
According to one doctor Butcher spoke to a patient suffering from haemorrhagic fever "literally melts in front of your eyes".
Butcher reported that the first known case of the disease was among Russian soldiers serving in the Crimea in 1944 and then among villagers living near the Congolese city of Kisangani in 1956. He writes that it was not until 1969 that scientists were able to isolate the single virus common to both.
Although there have been a number of cases since, none of the outbreaks have been as large as the current one.
At the Fatima Jinnah Chest and General Hospital in Quetta Dr Akhlaq Hussain, the hospital's medical superintendent, told Butcher: "The first cases came in June. There were a number of deaths, but at first we Did not know what was the cause."
He explained that a number of blood samples were sent to Pakistan's national virology testing center in Islamabad. They were then sent to South Africa’s National Institute of Virology in Johannesburg for confirmation.
Dr Hussain said: "When the results came back we knew we were dealing With Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever." He has compiled a list of all 75 Cases, which he said involved refugees recently arrived from Afghanistan or people living close to the border.
Given bin Laden’s frantic efforts to develop a capability to use germ warfare as a weapon in his so-called holy war against the U.S., and the facts that he is still operating in Afghanistan, some believe the outbreak could be a test of a dread new weapon of biological terrorism bin Laden has acquired.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/10/4/104642
Is Ebola Epidemic in Afghanistan bin Laden’s Work?
What has been described as the largest outbreak in history of lethal Ebola is killing Pakistanis in a city that borders on Afghanistan, raising the possibility that the epidemic is the work of Usama bin Laden.
The disease, which causes victims to bleed to death with blood oozing out of every bodily oriface, is rampaging through the Pakistani city of Quetta. According to Britain’s Daily Telegraph at least 75 people have been felled by the outbreak, and eight victims have died.
All the victims were either recent arrivals from Afghanistan or lived close to the frontier between that nation and Pakistan.
According to Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher, there is evidence that the outbreak started in Afghanistan which harbors terrorist chieftain bin Laden, known to be seeking biological weapons for use against America and the West.
Writing from Quetta, Butcher described the disease as Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, which mimics the Ebola virus in severity and effect. Both damage blood vessels and lead to the collapse of vital body organs.
According to one doctor Butcher spoke to a patient suffering from haemorrhagic fever "literally melts in front of your eyes".
Butcher reported that the first known case of the disease was among Russian soldiers serving in the Crimea in 1944 and then among villagers living near the Congolese city of Kisangani in 1956. He writes that it was not until 1969 that scientists were able to isolate the single virus common to both.
Although there have been a number of cases since, none of the outbreaks have been as large as the current one.
At the Fatima Jinnah Chest and General Hospital in Quetta Dr Akhlaq Hussain, the hospital's medical superintendent, told Butcher: "The first cases came in June. There were a number of deaths, but at first we Did not know what was the cause."
He explained that a number of blood samples were sent to Pakistan's national virology testing center in Islamabad. They were then sent to South Africa’s National Institute of Virology in Johannesburg for confirmation.
Dr Hussain said: "When the results came back we knew we were dealing With Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever." He has compiled a list of all 75 Cases, which he said involved refugees recently arrived from Afghanistan or people living close to the border.
Given bin Laden’s frantic efforts to develop a capability to use germ warfare as a weapon in his so-called holy war against the U.S., and the facts that he is still operating in Afghanistan, some believe the outbreak could be a test of a dread new weapon of biological terrorism bin Laden has acquired.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/10/4/104642
