HE: "Goma is a city of one million people.
SHE: "Ping Null and Void"
Posted on 07/14/2019 9:00:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A case of Ebola was confirmed in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sunday, for the first time since the outbreak began nearly a year ago.
The country's Ministry of Health said in a series of tweets that a sick pastor arrived in the city from Butembo by bus Sunday. The virus first struck Butembo, a city of more than a 100,000 people, last September.
The risk of the disease spreading in Goma is low, the ministry said, because the patient was quickly isolated and transferred to an Ebola treatment center.
The ministry said the bus driver and the 18 other passengers will be vaccinated on Monday.
The ongoing outbreak in DRC, in which more than 1,600 people have died, is the second largest Ebola outbreak in history.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
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.
“The ministry said the bus driver and the 18 other passengers will be vaccinated on Monday.” Vaccinated for what, Ebola has no vaccine or cure?
There's one thing that cures all diseases.
“Many Ebola vaccine candidates had been developed in the decade prior to 2014,[101] but as of November 2014, none had been approved for use in humans in the United States.[102][103][104] In December 2016, Ebola was found to be 70–100% prevented by rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.[105][106][7] More than 100,000 people have been vaccinated against Ebola as of 2019.[107]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease#Vaccines
Her Spanish name is Santa Muerte.
Yes, she does ‘cure’ all diseases.
let’s let more congolese’s into san anon and disperse them around the country., And let’s keep NOT testing them for ebola. And let’s not figure out how to stop them crossing the border.
San Antonio
Interesting... I stand corrected! They’ve come a long way in the past couple years.
there is an experimental vaccine for ebola that appears to have some efficacy
The patient was quickly isolated after he rode with a bunch of passengers on a longish bus ride. Where then did all those passengers go?
There is an experimental vaccine.
https://www.who.int/ebola/drc-2018/faq-vaccine/en/
That was a great movie. I wish they made more of this genre.
How many from there have flown in to the US in the past week? It only takes one. We got lucky, very lucky, with that guy in Dallas a few years ago.
“Use safe burial procedures”
Should depict someone with a flamethrower.
I remember the movie “Outbreak”.
That was some pretty scary stuff.
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