2009 has been quite the year for me learning about various pathogens. H1N1, H2N2, H5N1, Ebola, HPV, H3N8, pneumonic plague et cetera. I guess there is time for one more before the end of the year, and that pathogen would be Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever. This pathogen recently killed an Army soldier in Afghanistan.
Source: Washington Times
U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to take blood samples from members of an Army unit after a soldier in the unit died from an Ebola-like virus.
Dr. Jim Radike, an expert in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Role 3 Trauma Hospital at Kandahar Air Field, told The Washington Times that Sgt. Robert David Gordon, 22, from River Falls, Ala., died Sept. 16 from what turned out to be Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever after he was bitten by a tick.
Source: Washington Times
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