An outbreak of what appears to be a new haemorrhagic fever has brought home how frightening little we know about deadly African viruses. Three people have died and a fourth was ill as New Scientist went to press.
In early September a 36-year-old woman living near Lusaka in Zambia fell ill and was airlifted to South Africa, where she died. Alarms were raised when a paramedic and a nurse who tended her died two weeks later. The latest person to succumb is a nurse who tended the paramedic.
On Sunday, South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) announced…
