Ebola outbreak deaths top 1,000 amid worsening security situation

The Hill ^ | 5/3/2019 | reid wilson

[bitt]

More than 1,000 people have died in two provinces of Congo in the second-worst outbreak of the Ebola virus recorded in modern times.

The Congolese health ministry said Friday that 1,529 people had been infected in the outbreak, which is concentrated in two trading cities in North Kivu Province. Of those, 1,008 people have died, a mortality rate of nearly 66 percent.

In just the last week, 132 new Ebola cases have been confirmed, the health ministry said.

The latest outbreak — the 10th recorded in Congo in modern history — began last summer in the town of Beni, which has a population of about 250,000. It has since migrated south, to the cities of Butembo and Katwa, where hundreds of new cases have been reported in recent months.

Public health officials are scrambling to respond to the outbreak in a region where ethnic strife is endemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday they had recorded more than 100 attacks against health care workers or facilities dedicated to treating Ebola patients.

Eighty-five health care workers have been injured or killed since the outbreak began. Last month, an attack on Butembo University Hospital killed Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung, a WHO epidemiologist from Cameroon who had been assigned to lead a local response team there.

[hawkaw]

I sure hope they get this under control.

[JudyinCanada]

I hope they never show up at the southern border.

[bitt]

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many Congolese have been crossing the southern border lately..just sayin’....

[bitt]

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many Congolese have been crossing the southern border lately..just sayin’....

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Bring Out Your Dead

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...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[RightGeek]

Diversity is our strength!

[Jim Noble]

I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit.

It’s the only way to be sure.

[bgill]

Some who had been monitored for Ebola broke out of a Mexican immigration center the other day so they should be arriving at a US border station any day.

WHO hasn’t wanted to declare this outbreak an emergency so how many have to die before they do?

[HighSierra5]

Famine and pestilence

[Tammy8]

People from the Congo ARE showing up at the Southern border:

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/04/15/congolese-migrants-monitored-for-ebola-along-texas-border-says-official/

Many more are trying to get here now:

https://www.foxnews.com/world/migrant-caravan-global-refugees-world

https://mb.ntd.com/african-migrants-riot-vandalize-immigration-facility-in-southern-mexico_311958.html

[RockyTx]

whats the down side to this?

[IndispensableDestiny]

With 134 infected in one week, two thirds will die. So at that rate, the death toll will double in 12 weeks.

[Vaquero]

Keep them in Congo

[bitt]

Might just be DJT’s final excuse to CLOSE THE BORDER!!!!!!!

do it!!

[The Toll]

No way Obama appointed Judges would let us close the border to African Ebola infected. Front of the plane!

[thinden]

I hope they never show up at the southern border.

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They’ve already arrived at our southern border.

FOX News Has interviewd several this week in mexico

[thinden]

whats the down side to this?

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Imo, the down side is that biological warfare is the only way to attack free country with over 200 million armed citizens

(Check out today's vid from Venezuela citizens throwing rocks.

Or last week in France, citizens throwing eggs

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How will you defend your home & family?

[cabbieguy]

Or better yet, send them to Iran.

[PIF]

How many Ebola carriers are escaping to South America, joining a caravan and freely crossing into the US?