Unconfirmed report: "Two Ebola cases in Mosul"

 Unconfirmed report: "Two Ebola cases in Mosul"(IraqNews).

3.UPDATE ! Iraqi Health Ministry denies registration Ebola disease in Mosul. 

On Wednesday, an official newspaper revealed, that two Ebola cases and 26 AIDS cases have been reported and registered in Mosul.

The Iraqi official newspaper ‘Al-Sabah’ said in its today’s issue, “Many diseases and epidemics have spread among residents of the city of Mosul,” and added, “Two Ebola and 26 HIV AIDS cases were registered.”

The newspaper quoted medical sources in the city,”These diseases moved to Nineveh by terrorists and expats from different countries, especially Africa.”

On November 23, 2014, the Parliamentary Committee of Health and Environment warned from the entry of the Ebola into Iraq by the Islamic State (IS), while confirming that the Commission had taken the necessary measures to prevent the entry and spread of this disease in the country.

On November 21, 2014, the United Nations Security Council expressed its grave concern about the Ebola outbreak on an unprecedented scale in Africa, which poses a threat to the international peace and security, at a time when the World Health Organization announced the rise of Ebola victims to more than 6000. Hmmmm......To be taken with a cup of salt until further notice. Probably two MERS cases instead of Ebola.

1. Update: 

Reports that Islamic State militants in Mosul have contracted Ebola swirled though Iraqi media sources on Wednesday. World Health Organization officials said they haven't confirmed the cases, but the organization has reached out to offer assistance.

Three outlets reported that Ebola showed up at a hospital in Mosul, a city 250 miles north of Baghdad that's been under ISIS control since June 2014. The reports, however, have perpetuated mostly in pro-government and Kurdish media.

"We have no official notification from [the Iraqi government] that it is Ebola," Christy Feig, WHO's director of communications told Mashable.

Feig added that WHO is in the process of reaching out to government officials in Iraq to see if they need help investigating the cases, a task that could be a challenge, given the restrictions that would come with operating in ISIS-controlled territory.

It's unclear if any disease experts or doctors in Mosul are even able to test for the Ebola virus.
A Kurdish official, who was convinced the cases are Ebola, told the Kurdish media outlet Xendan that the militants' symptoms were similar to those of the Ebola virus.

However, Ebola symptoms -- nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding and bruising -- are also similar to those associated with a number of other diseases, including malaria, Lassa fever, yellow fever viruses and the Marburg virus. Also, most confirmed Ebola cases in this recent outbreak have originated in West Africa.

Citing an unnamed source in a Mosul hospital, Iraq's official pro-government newspaper, al Sabaah, said the disease arrived in Mosul from "terrorists" who came "from several countries" and Africa.

While ISIS has recruited foreign fighters, very few of them -- if any at all -- are believed to have traveled from West Africa.

2. Update via Flu trackers.

 Iraq - Unconfirmed reports regarding Ebola cases in Mosul. Excerpt from a Google translation:

BAGHDAD - morning Tariq al-Ali Mowaffak revealed health information from inside Mosul, said in a statement singled out the "morning" for the spread of many diseases and epidemics among the inhabitants of the city, certain recording two goals disease "Ebola" dangerous, as well as 26 cases with HIV, "AIDS "indicating that these diseases moved to Nineveh by terrorists and arrivals from several countries, especially Africa.

This is the latest in a short thread of such FluTrackers reports, but it sounds very unreliable to me as well as to FluTrackers.