Luanda, Angola
A deadly, Ebola-like bleeding disease is spreading across Angola, the World Health Organization said this week. The Marburg virus, a hemorrhagic fever that causes bloody vomiting and diarrhea, spreads through body fluid contact and kills about one-fourth of its victims. It has killed 126 people, mostly small children, since October, in the worst such outbreak ever recorded. Angola, a former Portuguese colony, was embroiled in a 27-year civil war until just a few years ago, and the health care system is rudimentary. There are just 1,200 doctors for 11 million people.
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