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To: Lucretius who wrote (93454)	4/12/2001 12:26:36 PM
From: AllansAlias	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

(This is just for fun. Let's see if the gut knows... The short has done well enough since getting in. COMPX has retraced a little and all, but, just from looking at the screens I get this feeling from time to time. I bet we make another freaking high here soon before a retracement and I'll be whipped-out. It's a gut thing.)

To: Lucretius who wrote (93454)	4/12/2001 12:29:11 PM
From: r.edwards	Respond to of 436258

Ebola Fear Grips Kenya As Second Recruit is Hospitalised Panafrican News Agency (Dakar) April 11, 2001 Posted to the web April 11, 2001 Tervil Okoko Nairobi, Kenya Panic and fear has gripped Kenyans as second suspected Ebola victim got admitted at Nyeri's Mathari Consolata Hospital in central Kenya. Robert Chepkwony, a recruit from Kiganjo Police College, was diagnosed with a high fever almost similar to the one that claimed Jackline Anyango's life last week. Anyango was also a recruit from the same college. Health authorities confirmed Wednesday that the 19-year-old Chepkwony was admitted at the hospital over the weekend. The symptoms of the ailment include vomiting, diarrhoea and high temperature, which were the case with Anyango before she started bleeding profusely. According to Mathari Hospital administrator, Father Thomas Matenjwa, Chepkwony was by Wednesday afternoon fighting for his life in an isolation ward under observation and his temperature was around 39 degrees centigrade. Fr. Matenjwa also confirmed that among the top Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) experts who had rushed to the hospital over the Ebola scare, was a senior virologists from Europe who had competently handled the pandemic in Congo and Uganda last year. Fr. Matenjwa said although the symptoms presented by the second recruit were not exactly similar to those that killed Anyango, the hospital was not taking the matter lightly. The fears of an Ebola outbreak was heightened at the weekend when Anyango, 24, died within hours of her admission at Mathari Mission Hospital where she collapsed after bleeding heavily from body orifices. Anyango was admitted at the Police College on 17 February where she was training as a police officer before she fell sick on 1 April. She died last Monday. Following Anyango's death, top KEMRI officials and those from the Ministry of Health rushed to the Mathari Hospital where specimens were taken to determine the identity of the ailment the recruit had succumbed to. KEMRI officials are examining some of the specimens while others have been flown to the US and South Africa. Results are expected in Kenya in two weeks. Although health experts say the symptoms are similar to those of Ebola, Kenya's health minister, Sam Ongeri, has dismissed the possibility that Anyango had succumbed to the deadly virus. "The dead woman (Anyango) and the current patient could be victims of inherited bleeding disorder, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, related to severe malaria infection and the haemorrhagic fever," Ongeri was quoted in the local media as saying. However, he added: "Although these cases are unlikely to be Ebola, the ministry (of health) has not dismissed the possibility of haemorrhagic fever." To calm the local residents, KEMRI officials have reassured the Mathari Hospital employees of their safety.