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Gwyn
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17 years ago

Reported in The Guardian 12.7.08
The World Health Organisation yesterday urged Ugandans and tourists to avoid entering caves inhabited by bats after a Dutch woman returned home with deadly Marburg haemorragic fever.
"It is an isolated case of imported Marburg. People should not think about amending their travel plans to Uganda but should not go into caves with bats," a WHO spokesman said.
The 40-year-old woman, who is seriously ill in hospital in the Netherlands, is believed to have been exposed to fruit bats in a cave in the Maramagambo forest, and had visited a cave in Fort Portal, said the WHO.

Makes one thankful to live in UK!!
Must update my rabies jab!

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carnkie
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17 years ago

Well it's not caves you need to avoid here but hospitals in case the dreaded Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strikes!

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

justin
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17 years ago

ugandan hospitals are some where you go to die
or somewhere you go to pick up an illness you don't
currently have....
needle and instrument re-use is common with only
minimal sterilization by boiling. ...
most uk companies operating there use medivac to
another country 😠

rhychydwr
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17 years ago

Longest Cave: Garama Cave 342 m. A lava tube. No known karst. Source: Atlas of the Great Caves and the Karst of Africa Part 3. Published as Berliner Höhlenkundliche Berichte Band 9 page 370.

Cutting coal in my spare time.

Barney
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17 years ago

[mod]Moved from 'North Wales' forum into 'rest of world'[/mod]

carnkie
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17 years ago

"justin" wrote:
ugandan hospitals are some where you go to die
or somewhere you go to pick up an illness you don't
currently have....
needle and instrument re-use is common with only
minimal sterilization by boiling. ...
most uk companies operating there use medivac to
another country 😠

If my post gave the impression that I was comparing Uganda with the UK then I apologise. In many areas of African countries they don't even have hospitals and the whole situation is a human tragedy on a massive scale.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

justin
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17 years ago

apologies ........drew no inference from your post & was just
passing comment ....

would agree with you on the human tragedy aspect
western mining companies & now china pump massive
ammounts of cash into africa and indeed the 3rd world
in general ............
this however rarely ever filters down to those who need it

😉

Gwyn
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17 years ago

The interesting article was on the following two pages in the same paper.
It's about the rush for oil in the Athabasca tar sands, Alberta, Canada. It seems to qualify as both mining and quarrying (rest of world)...and then a whole lot more!
See guardian.co.uk/environment
The Caterpillar 797B sounds interesting!