Ebola is back...

[Jason]

I knew you'd be pleased.

[cronus]

http://www2.journalducameroun.com/en/ne ... ial-warns/

Next Ebola outbreak is inevitable, WHO official warns

Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organisation has said a new outbreak of the Ebola virus is inevitable.
The WHO official was speaking Thursday May 4, at an event in the Guinean capital dedicated to individuals who fought to control the disease in their communities. Margaret Chan urged world leaders to be more prepared while assuring that the new vaccine and rapid-response measures mean the disease will be more effectively contained.

The WHO chief use the forum to acknowledge the Guinean government for its role in developing the vaccine, announced in December, but added a note of caution.

“Scientists do not yet know exactly where in nature the Ebola virus hides between outbreaks, but nearly all experts agree that another outbreak is inevitable,” she said, speaking to an audience of scientists, Ebola response coordinators and dignitaries. “When this occurs, the world will be far better prepared,” Chan added.

In a major clinical trial using an innovative “ring”, method, nearly 6,000 people in Guinea were given the test vaccine in 2015, during which not one of them contracted the disease.

Even with an “initially limited” first batch of the vaccine, Chan said, health authorities had another option in their arsenal “beyond isolation and quarantine”.

(continued, seems expensive when in the post-Trump landscape we know prayer, especially Jesus focused prayer, works just as well...)

[Feck]

Ebola is utterly insignificant .
It isn't even useful as a bio-weapon .

[pErvinalia]

It kills too quickly.

[Rum]

Its purpose is to reinforce Crumple's world view that we are all doomed.

[laklak]

Yep. Until those pesky doctors got involved AIDS was a perfect pathogen. Spread by fucking, a decade or so till it kills. Perfect way to reduce the population without untoward economic effects. I blame the gays, if they'd just taken one for team we'd be living in Paradise now.

[Rum]

Never mind. Antibiotics are going to stop working soon. Deaths from infection are back on the menu big time. Crumple is in doom heaven.

[laklak]

Throw in climate change, killer asteroids, and Trump, and our chances of seeing 2030 are about 1 in 3.

It's a great time to be alive.

[Brian Peacock]

We're living in the End Times. I'm a-comin' f' ya Jesus!!

[JimC]

Vast amounts of gin is the only possible solution...

[Brian Peacock]

Did you know that there is a major Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and it’s on track to be the deadliest ever? It is already the second-worst Ebola outbreak in history, with the fastest community transmission we have ever seen. It’s estimated that there have been at least 4,900 cases and more than 2,300 deaths, giving a mortality rate close to 50%. The situation is bad. That’s the consensus among global health experts.

Yet this Ebola outbreak isn’t attracting much media or public attention. If I compare it with working on the 2014 Ebola outbreak, the current silence is astounding. That year, Ebola was one of the most Googled terms in the world, covered regularly on broadcast news in many countries outside the region, attracting newspaper headlines and magazine covers. Perhaps everyone is just tired of disease after the pandemic – Covid-19 fatigue, as it’s called. Trust me, no one wants to hear about infectious diseases.

Unfortunately things are only getting worse in the region. A perfect storm of factors is making the spread hard to contain, even more difficult to slow down – and the health impact is devastating. One concerning factor is that most of the cases, and deaths, are happening in the community before patients even get to hospital: it’s estimated that local health workers are reaching only 30% of cases. Adding to the impact, children make up a quarter of confirmed cases, and almost a third of all deaths. And those are just the direct deaths from the Ebola virus: routine health services such as childhood vaccination campaigns against measles and basic child survival interventions have been disrupted, meaning a higher number of indirect deaths from lack of healthcare.

It’s not just children. Maternal deaths in Ituri (the worst-hit province) have doubled, from childbirth complications and a lack of trained health personnel but also because Ebola infection during pregnancy is linked to foetal loss...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... torm-virus

[pErvinalia]

I did know. It's been covered on our news.

[aufbahrung]

Gonna get worse, not tripped a major border thus far - not seen nothing yet, especially given the coming economic meltdown and second great depression that'll mean people reusing needles everywhere and using sex as currency. I guess we'll find out if it really was the original Black Death in the next few years?

[pErvinalia]

You never disappoint, Crump.