WMD in Iraq
In case you missed it in the David Kay interim report, this is the disease that OUR inspectors found that the Tikrit thugs had NEW reserch on: The virus is rather fragile and does not survive well outside the host. It is rapidly killed by ultraviolet light. It is very stable in the tick vector and infected ticks remain infected throughout their lives. The disease is found throughout the range of its tick hosts, a band across the Old World stretching from Central Asia and the Ukraine to the Congo and Central Africa. Outbreaks in the Old World may be difficult to identify as attacks unless the attacker is careless. Mortality is high and it can be used to kill large numbers. However, it can be treated with the antiviral ribavirin.
New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
After an incubation period of 2-7 days there is a sudden onset of flu-like symptoms including a severe headache, chills, fever, headache, muscular, lumbar and abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. After 3-5 days, hemorrhage begins and is seen as a red or purple discoloration of the skin and the development of nosebleeds. In about half of all cases the liver is enlarged (hepatomegaly). Blood is found in saliva, urine, black skin patches and vomit. This will lead to shock, vascular collapse and death about 10 days after the onset of symptoms. If the patient survives and the fever begins to subside, then a long slow recovery is possible.
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