Afghanistan our troops face a deadly new killer
By Linda on Nov 11, 2009 in General News
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Afghanistan our troops face a deadly new killer
An American soldier has died from appears to be an Ebola type virus at a remote out post in southern Afghanistan.
Afghanistan the U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost of the U.S. Army after a soldier in the unit died from an what turned out to Hemorrhagic fever.
Sgt. Robert Gordon died after being infected by a tick bite.
He died back on September 16th from Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.
This poses a big new added risk to our troops Ebola is fatal in approximately 30 percent of the time.
