War-scarred Iraqis face health burdens in foreign lands.

Displaced Iraqi woman Fawzi Hussein Yassin, 64. An outbreak taskforce was established, comprising experts from both the Ugandan Ministry of Health and Wildlife Authority, as well as WHO. Police officers joined with village council and district leaders to ensure compliance with quarantine orders. Experts are conducting tests at the mine and on the bats, rats and other creatures living there. The link, if any, between the wildlife at the mine and the outbreak has not yet been determined, but investigators are sending samples of the bats and other creatures to CDC for testing. WHO’s George said 55 suspected contacts had been isolated in Kampala together with another 58 miners in Kamwenge. The mine’s owner said the site had been closed for decades before reopening earlier this year, George added. The mine owner also told investigators that there had been past cases of people falling ill and dying from fever and haemorrhaging, according to Okware. The “strange” undiagnosed disease would kill up to four people before burning out on its own. Formenty, of the EPR team, praised the response to the outbreak, saying it demonstrated the heightened A WHO scientist performs an autopsy on a bat captured inside a mine in western Uganda amid efforts to find the reservoir for the recent Marburg fever outbreak. W HO /P ie rre F or m en ty