7 days since last casualty reporting from the WHO. Longest gap in reporting since June, when this was still your garden variety Ebola outbreak, with variations.
Word is that Congo has 500 or more cases. French are reporting that. Conjecture.
They’ve lost the grip on the situation.
Whoa.
They’re probably trying to figure out how to report this then in such a way that won’t instill panic.
It sure looks that way.
According to Dr. Niman on flutrackers, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs indicates there are 565 possible cases in the DRC. That was a few days ago.
Who knows how many there are now.
I don’t think the numbers that have been reported from the West Africa outbreak are anywhere near accurate. Ken Isaacs, in his testimony before Congress around August 7, said that he believed the numbers released by WHO comprised maybe 25-50% of the actual cases. And that may be conservative.