WHO (World Health Organization) workers have pulled back in Angola after their workers were attacked.

An outbreak of Marburg Hemmoragic Fever which began in a northern province in October is terrifying citizens who believe the medicine people are killing.

Angola is a country of 41 million people who have seen civil war for 27 years. The infrastructure is pretty much destroyed.

12 medical people have died trying to contain this outbreak, including foreign personnel.
It is the worst in history. Some medical personnel in the capital city are not going to work in fear of their lives.

Marburg has no treatment and no cure.
As of today WHO says there are 205 reported cases, 183 deaths.
As medical personnel from WHO, Angola and Doctors without Borders attempt to negoitiate with the government, there will be more deaths.
This article in Stuff New Zealand gives the sense of extreme urgency, fear and helpless.

Doctors and nurses treating Marburg patients can offer little beyond treatment to ease the pain – and even that is limited by the fact that patients are rarely given injections to avoid accidental infection of health staff.

The rare hemorrhagic fever, which is related to Ebola, is characterised by headaches, nausea, vomiting and bloody diarrhoea. It is spread through close contact with bodily fluids including blood, saliva and semen.

Known as one of the most virulent diseases affecting mankind, Marburg has a fearsome reputation and is known to bring an exceptionally gruesome death.

Faced with this enemy, medical staff working at the specially-set up isolation unit at Uige’s provincial hospital are taking no chances and are using “full bio-protection suits” that take half an hour to put on and a gruelling 45 minutes to take off, a procedure that presents the most risk of contamination.

Symptoms appear in 5 to 7 days.

Dafur
There has been another massacure in Dafur. The word another is sickening.
The UN has expressed shock - and death continues.

A village named Khor Abeche was razed by 350 militia. A mosque and school are all that stand. 17 people were killed, it is not known how many have been injured.
Sudan: The Passion of the Present, is a blog that is following what many politicans choose not to call a genocide. It is hard to read. Extensive crop failure because of the conflict and drought has now put 4 million people in extreme risk. Sudan is the largest country in Africa with a population of 34 million. There has been a 21 year civil war between the north and the south, it is believed 1.5 million people were killed, peace negotiations have not held.

In this 2 year regional battle, 180 thousand people have been killed.
1.8 million people are refugees.