Posted on 05/31/2026 1:51:32 PM PDT by Red Badger
More than 1,100 people were suspected of having contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring Uganda, the head of the African Union's health agency said on Sunday in a commentary for the Financial Times.
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention director general Jean Kaseya said there were 263 confirmed cases in both countries as of Saturday, with 43 confirmed deaths.
More than 1,100 suspected cases were still being investigated, he wrote in the editorial. On Thursday, the Africa CDC said there had been 246 suspected deaths from the virus.
"We must move at the speed of the epidemic," added Kaseya, criticising Africa's dependence on outside financial support.
The health ministers of the DR Congo, Uganda and South Sudan recently adopted a $319-million response plan to the outbreak.
"That momentum must now expand across the continent," Kaseya said, calling the latest Ebola outbreak a "serious test" for the Africa CDC and the African Union.
"This outbreak will not be the last," he added.
The outbreak was declared on May 15 in Ituri, in the northeast DR Congo, which is home to more than 100 million people and is one of the poorest countries in the world.
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CORRECTION: YOU BETTER BE MOVING FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF THE EPIDEMIC
Just don’t be dancing with and hugging the dead bodies and they will be fine!.........
Are you pushing some kind of vaccine?
The lowest of low IQ tried it already and failed in their mission.
Direct contact with body fluids sounds like something that could be easily avoided. But minute traces of saliva, sweat - even feces (ugh!) - can be on the seat of the bus stop, on a plate with someone passes to you, etc. It only takes one person with unwashed hands to turn a door handle, which you touch then minutes later. Our immune systems usually meet up with these impurities and deal with them - but not if it is an Ebola infection.
Seasonal outbreaks happen there. How is this time different ?
It’s an election year................
No, why do you think that?
I mean if they have a legit vaccine sure but I’m not advocating for it at all. I don’t think it’s even close to having one.
Ebola could be God’s answer to Low IQ people.
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If they could only resist eating monkey maybe Ebola would go away.
Has Bill Gates been releasing mosquitoes in the area?
No, he’s in South America doing it instead...........
You were essentially saying data is to IQ as vaccine is to immune system.
But the flawed premise is that IQ doesn’t protect against ebola.
No clearly you missed my point.
Look up avg IQ by continent.
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