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Dreadful viral diseases on the rise in Africa due to climate change and deforestation

  • BY OGHENEKEVWE CHRISTOPHER OGHENECHOVWEN
  • Jan 8, 2018
  • 1 min read

Beautiful, patterned white lines and detailed symbols traced the walls of the room. Inside there, in Gbolaka-Ta village, young Liberian girl Hawa Singbeh almost died from Ebola in 2015 – the same room she was born in. Her brother and sister did not survive this virus.

The most complex and widespread Ebola virus disease outbreak in history occurred in six West Africa nations, from 2013 to 2016. Ebola, which spreads by contact with body fluids of infected humans and handling or eating infected primates, is a violent haemorrhagic fever that leads to internal and external bleeding and organ failure.

photo credit: CDC Global Health

 
 
 

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