Posted on 05/22/2026 11:16:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Authorities in northeastern Congo banned funeral wakes and gatherings of more 50 people Friday in an effort to curb a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak in a region where medical workers have struggled with a lack of resources and pushback from angry residents.
The World Health Organization said that the outbreak now poses a “very high” risk for Congo — up from a previous categorization of “high” — but that the risk of the disease spreading globally remains low.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 82 cases and seven deaths have been confirmed in Congo, but that the outbreak is believed to be “much larger.”
There is no available vaccine for the Bundibugyo virus, which spread undetected for weeks in Congo’s Ituri Province following the first known death while authorities tested for another, more common, Ebola virus and came up negative. There are now 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths, though more are expected as surveillance expands.
“We are trying to catch up,” Congo Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner told the AP. “It is a race against the clock.”
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This is why WHO is unnecessary.
I got a BAD feeling about this one...
All it takes is one person or package to make it out of the country to infect others...........
Documented by the CDC (before Obummer) is part of the burial ritual in Congo is touching the body.
Thus you pass the infection very quickly.
All cultures are equal, don’tcha know!............
Mickey is the only one left!.................
Just imagine trying to govern a nation of people whose IQ is two standard deviations below the world mean.
A genius (top 1%) in Congo has an IQ of 98.
Ebola is relatively hard to spread.
It would be all but wiped out if people wore shoes with rubber soles in Africa and didn’t have weird funeral rites.
Idiocracy was a prophecy............
“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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