As of Jan. 3, 2008, 148 people had become ill and 37 people had died of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in western Uganda’s Bundibugyo district in an outbreak that may have begun as early as August 2007.

Ebola, a rare, serious viral disease, is spread through direct contact with the blood or other body fluids of infected persons. People who have close contact with a nonhuman primate infected with the virus are also at risk.

In Brazil, from Dec. 1, 2007, to Jan. 23, 2008, 18 cases of yellow fever were reported, including nine deaths.

Mostly, inland rather than coastal areas are affected, with expansion recently to the northern part of Espiritu Santo and the western part of Santa Catarina states.

Yellow fever is spread by the bite of an infected mosquito.

As ITN went to press, the State Department had travel warnings on 28 destinations: Eritrea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Iran, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Somalia, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Lebanon, Indonesia, Yemen, Nepal, Pakistan, Syria, Timor-Leste, Sudan, Haiti, Central African Republic, Iraq, Israel/West Bank/Gaza, Colombia, Philippines and Afghanistan.

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