Bleeding Eye Fever Outbreak Kills Three in South Sudan, One in Uganda
‘BLEEDING Eye Fever’ that’s deadlier than the plague has killed four and infected dozens in East Africa, as health chiefs warn the spread could be “catastrophic”.
The horrific new disease could be about to bring fresh misery to the continent – so soon after the deadly Ebola outbreak of 2014-16.
Fears are growing that the deadly disease could spread across Africa
The virus – which leaves people bleeding from their eyes, mouth, and anus – is thought to be spreading in South Sudan.
Three people have already died – a pregnant woman, a teenage boy and a teenage girl – in Eastern Lakes State.
Up to 60 people are now feared to be infected, and are each undergoing tests by a team from the Sudanese healthy ministry and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
And medics are now concerned they are on the verge of a health emergency — worse that the Black Death outbreak last year — after the sudden death of a child in the Nakaseke district of neighbouring Uganda.
A child’s death has sparked fears of deadly new plague with dreadful symptoms
The nine-year-old girl died after displaying the nightmarish symptoms of the extremely infectious virus that kills up to 40 per cent of those affected.
And tests have now confirmed she died from the disease – officially named Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever – according to Xinhua news agency.
The disease is transmitted to humans through tick bites, or through contact with the blood of infected animals especially during slaughter.
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