ISIL claims deadly attack in Ebola-wracked eastern DR Congo

Al Jazzeria ^ | 5 Jun 2019

[BenLurkin]

In a statement issued on Tuesday by the armed group via Telegram, an encrypted messaging application, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) group said it had targeted military forces in the city of Beni a day earlier, killing or wounding 25 people.

The group's account of the violence appeared to differ from local reports. Modeste Bakwanamaha, deputy mayor of Beni, told Reuters news agency that 13 civilians were killed in an attack late on Monday.

The ADF, originally a Ugandan group, has been operating along the DRC's border with Uganda for more than two decades. It is one of scores of rival armed factions active in the region, including in the area around Beni, which is at the epicentre of an ongoing Ebola outbreak.

The widespread insecurity has hampered efforts to battle the epidemic, now the second-worst on record, with more than 100 attacks on treatment centres and health workers recorded since the beginning of the year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Amid the unrest, the number of recorded cases surged past 2,000 this week as the rate of infection continued to accelerate.

The outbreak, which emerged in the DRC's eastern North Kivu province in August and later spread to the neighbouring Ituri province, has killed 1,354 people so far, according to the latest figures from the DRC's health ministry.

[Pollard]

ISIL? haven’t heard that one in a while. obammy’s name for isis wasn’t it?

[Zathras]

Is everyone thinking what I am?
Considering our idiot DHS and TSA, I can only think of about 100 ways one could attack major cities in the USA with Ebola.

By the time DHS found their backside, we could be looking at a major epidemic.

[Myrddin]

There is a new Ebola variant that is very different from the Ebola zaire behavior. The Zaire variety typically kills a victim within 3 days of infection. The net result is a very hot infection that kills people in a small geographic region. All die and nobody travels far enough to spread it.

The new variety presents like a bad cold or flu. The infected party is well enough to travel and spread the virus for a couple weeks post infection. At that point, the familiar killing behavior takes hold and kills the host. This version could be a planet wide extinction. Infected parties can be flown to Central America and spread the contagion across Mexico as they head north into the USA. The USA has 10 isolation beds (nationwide) capable of isolation and treatment of an Ebola patient. We're going to be quickly overwhelmed. The ISIS idiots will grab a few infected individuals from DRC and send their bioweapon on a flight to Central America. It may have already occurred.

[BwanaNdege]

Rainbow 6, Tom Clancy

[Chode]

wait till they start infecting themselves and flying around the world spreading this terror on the unsuspecting

[Chode]

bingo...

[BwanaNdege]

Scary, huh?

[Chode]

with a natural virus without all the expense of R&D and willing hosts to spread it... the perfect storm

[BwanaNdege]

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[Chode]

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