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Friday, August 3, 2012

#Ebola virus could spread to Europe, experts say


Source: Večernji list
KAMPALA, ZAGREB -- The deadly Ebola virus, which has been raging through Uganda, could spread to Europe since it recently spread to the country’s capital of Kampala.
Flights connect Kampala with numerous European cities.
Experts warn that it will be enough if only one infected person gets on a plane to Paris or Vienna, Zagreb-based daily Večernji list writes.
Ebola breaks out in Uganda occasionally and the source is infected monkey meat. Outbreaks have never spread outside villages because the entire population would die, in most cases in the first 24 hours, before anyone could reach a bigger town.
However, the situation is somewhat different in a village where the last epidemic broke out ten days ago.
One of the villagers
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