[Tilted Irish Kilt]

".. after 4 months, there’s a glimmer of hope: An experimental Ebola vaccine appears to be helping the communities it reaches.
More than 40,000 people have received the vaccine, by far the largest use of it since a trial in 2015 showed it worked well.
So far the outbreak has tallied some 500 cases, about half of whom have died, according to the DRC’s Ministry of Public Health.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Infectious Disease ping

Ebola update - Democratic Republic of the Congo

The vaccine, while not yet 'proven' effective, seems to be working to contain the disease,
where it can be administered, devoid of threats from 'civil war'.

[BuffaloJack]

They should just torch the Kitum Cave complex (Kitum Cave and 5 or 6 smaller nearby caves) on the Kenya-Uganda border and get rid of Ebola, Marburg, Bleeding Eye Disease, Reston virus, AIDS, and probably several other viruses.
Kitum Cave is only 700 feet long and the other caves are smaller. The attraction is that the caves hold large crystals of pure viruses; they’re evidently beautiful to look at but super deadly. Why anyone would go into that place is beyond imagination. Just fill it up with gasoline and burn it.

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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 your child dies because I broke quarantine for a pizza, it was worth it. ~ Kaci Hickox, paraphrased