Posted on 09/06/2018 11:26:56 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Bring out yer dead ping.
"An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in two eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
has spread to a major international trading hub with almost a million residents, Congolese health officials said Wednesday.
So far, health officials have identified 127 probable and confirmed cases. Eighty-seven people have died.
..officials had identified at least 4,300 people who had come into contact with someone infected with the Ebola virus,
and more than half of those people remain under watch in case they develop symptoms.
Ethnic violence, and attacks from Islamist guerrillas based in Uganda, made some of that critical contact-tracing far more difficult.
This is the second Ebola outbreak this year in which the new vaccine has been deployed.
The vaccine, developed during the waning days of an Ebola outbreak in the West African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea,
was earlier deployed to Equateur Province, a region about 750 miles west of North Kivu.
None of those who received the vaccine in Equateur subsequently fell ill."
( FReeper note - less than 2 weeks ago, the death toll was 67, so the virus has doubled the fatalities within that time.
The good news is that the experimental vaccine appears to be working )
They have a city named Mangina?
A couple years ago I read a travel article by a guy who wanted to visit all the African countries. What he found were horrors and lack of basic infrastructure in every country, and he stayed in the large cities and capitals. The guy had started his trip with dreamy eyes but by the end of his journey, he had nothing but contempt for the whole continent.
Well, it’s pretty ruthless, but he does have a point.
I read a book once about this topic, and there was a strain of Ebola called Ebola Reston.
It was a good news/bad news thing.
The bad news - communicated to others via aerosol and infection rate was 100 percent.
The good news - only infected monkeys.
It’s our problem because if you get a strain that can be transmitted airborne and has a high infection rate, then it would ruin at least a week. It would spread very quickly and the death rate would be high. It’s also a painful way to go.
True. And he lived it.
I’ve a friend who emigrated from SA about 16-17 years ago. Still goes a few times a year on business. I sent this to him a few months back, and his response was “yes, that’s about it.”
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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