"This is Africa," said Dave Daigle, the spokesman here for the World Health Organization. To be a health official here, he said, "is like being a fireman in a village with the whole village on fire..."
The New York Times > Health > A Daunting Search: Tracking a Deadly Virus in Angola: "If they are correct and there was a delay in explaining the deaths, the reason may be that in Africa, sometimes the extraordinary is buried in the ordinary.
Children die at such an astonishing pace here and for any range of horrible reasons unknown to other parts of the world that it takes much more time for health workers to piece together if something as deadly as Marburg is at work.
In a country like Angola, where one in four children dies before the age of five, mostly from infectious diseases, crises like the one in the pediatric ward can easily be overlooked.
An outbreak of Marburg can look like a host of other illnesses to doctors and nurses who have never before encountered the disease. "
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