Death from African Unknown Illness

Looking back in November 11, 2004, the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died of stroke that was caused by a bleeding disorder which resulted from African unknown illness that resulted to a fatal infection.

Apparently, the leader suffered from an infection of an unknown cause for over a month before he had a stroke. Prior to his death, there were many rumors about his previous health condition. Unfortunately, the medical records that he left in the French military hospital where he died didn’t provide any substantial explanations. Even his doctors cannot agree on the actual cause of his death.

Conflicting media reports

Prior to the death of 75 year old Arafat, most of the local media personnel grasped rumors that the course of the illness and the symptoms that he experienced implied that he had symptoms of AIDS.

Unfortunately, because of the inconclusive medical reports, there have been many conflicting media reports regarding the African unknown illness that caused Arafat’s infection. However, some reports showed that AIDS was the cause of the fatality.

In contrast to the reports from the New York Times, The Haaretz reported that the symptoms of African unknown illness that affected Arafat were signs of food poisoning. In fact, a senior Israeli physician even cited that the death of the Palestinian leader was a “classic case of food poisoning”.

Various speculations about the untimely death

According to Mr. Avi Isacharov, there are two possible causes of the Palestinian leader’s death. Based on the medical records, the infection that Arafat had was from a germ that eventually poisoned his blood.

Most of Arafat’s followers stated that their leader’s fatal condition came from food poisoning. They claimed that Arafat was poisoned when he was having his dinner at the Ramallah headquarters on October 12, 2004, a month before he died. As a result, many Palestinians believed that Arafat’s death was actually a conspiracy masterminded by the Israeli government.

However, the locals provided a different claim as they associated the African unknown illness with a sexually transmitted disease.  GP