Posted on 05/26/2026 10:08:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
LONDON -- The New York-based International Rescue Committee (IRC) aid organization warned on Tuesday that the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring Uganda is now spreading faster than responders can contain it and risks becoming "the deadliest on record" without urgent international action.
What is especially alarming, the IRC said, is that the outbreak is no longer limited to remote areas of the DRC's northeastern province of Ituri, the epicenter of the current epidemic.
Cases and contacts are now spreading into larger regional hubs, the IRC warned, including the major city of Goma in the DRC's eastern province of North Kivu and also Uganda's capital, Kampala, with fears of much wider transmission.
"The outbreak is spreading faster than the response, with over 900 suspected cases and at least 223 deaths already reported across DRC and Uganda, including in major transport hubs like Goma and Kampala," the IRC wrote.
The IRC said conflict, mass displacement and deep international aid cuts have left health systems far weaker than during the massive 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in the eastern DRC, which the World Health Organization said killed at least 2,299 people.
The last time the IRC issued a warning of this scale about Ebola was during the 2018-2020 outbreak, when the organization repeatedly warned that violence, mistrust and weak health systems could allow the virus to spiral into a regional catastrophe.
The IRC is calling for an emergency international funding surge, the appointment of a United Nations emergency coordinator, faster import approvals for medical supplies and equipment, stronger community outreach to rebuild trust, special protection for women and girls – who reportedly make up around two-thirds of suspected cases – and long-term investment in fragile health systems already damaged by war and insecurity.
The current Ebola outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, a rare variant of Ebola for which there are no approved vaccines or therapeutics and which requires different diagnostics than other variants. Case fatality rates for previous Bundibugyo outbreaks have ranged from 30% to 50%, according to the WHO.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record occurred between 2014 and 2016 in West Africa, with more than 28,600 cases reported. The WHO said that outbreak killed at least 11,325 people by June 2016.
WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a Monday briefing that the current Ebola outbreak "will get worse before it gets better."
"We are facing an extremely serious and difficult outbreak. It will get worse before it gets better," Tedros said on Monday. "But we know this virus, and we know how to stop it. We have stopped every previous Ebola outbreak, and we will stop this one, too."
Ghebreyesus said he wanted to echo comments made by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa about overcoming the outbreak with unity.
"The question is just how quickly we can do it, and how many more lives will be lost before we do," Ghebreyesus added.
Last week, Tedros classified the Ebola outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern – one level below a pandemic in the United Nations agency's alert system.
The WHO continues to consider the national risk assessment as "very high" while the regional level risk remains "high" and the global risk level remains "low," Ghebreyesus said on Monday.
The outbreak has led to multiple countries, including the U.S., India, the U.K. and Australia, putting travel restrictions in place.
Entry to the U.S. is restricted for foreign travelers who have recently been in the DRC, Uganda and South Sudan.
Meanwhile, U.S. passport holders and U.S. nationals returning to the U.S. from the three countries will be funneled to Dulles Airport in Virginia to be screened for symptoms and interviewed about possible exposure.
Enhanced screening efforts also began at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport as of Saturday morning. Efforts at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston will begin late Tuesday.
Lawful permanent residents – green card holders – who have been in any of the three countries in question over the last 21 days are temporarily barred from entering the U.S.
ABC News' Eric M. Strauss and Mary Kekatos contributed to this report.
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Who doesn’t like a big fat raw monkey leg every now and then?...........
They need to switch back from necrophilia to just having relations with monkeys. All they can get there is Aids or Monkey pox.
That’s why our ancestors left in the first place!................
The mainstream medias thought processes on this..........
“We don't want people, the little people, the average people, the sheeple to be hostile to the poor migrants.....”
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THIS should scare the shit out of everyone and whats below even more.
This is the previous out break of ebola a few years ago but all listed information is factual and true.
Ebola outbreak in Congo surpasses 600 cases amid more violence
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**How far is Africa from the US by plane?**
This air travel distance is equal to 8,945 miles.
**How long is the flight time from the Africa to the USA?**
Non-stop flight time from Johannesburg, South Africa to New York is around 16 hours 15 minutes.
The Kinshasa Capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo flight time to Johannesburg, South Africa's non stop is around 4 hours 15 minutes.
**Total 20 hours and 30 mimutes...(Lets round up to 24 hours.)**
#The Ebola incubation period, or the time interval from infection to onset of symptoms, is from 2 to 21 days. People are not contagious until they develop symptoms.
An infected person could realistically be in NYC in 24 hours if all the lights were green, EBOLA incubates from 2 to 21 DAYS before it is infectious. Just how far can they worm their way in to a city, a state the east coast, the west coast where ever before they start infecting others? A homeless camp here a bus station there an air port. One gets to good old Mexico and mingles with a thousand or so deserving dreaming ms-13 un accompanied minors.
You do the math.
God, people are so ignorant.
“Ebola spreads so fast everybody will be dead before they can go to the bathroom..............”
It’s 8-10 days from infection to first symptoms on average and up too 21 days.
Plenty of time to get out of eastern DRC and into a major world hub city. Where everyone who touches you or something you contaminated as you leak mucus, tears, sweat all over the place loaded with virus. In late stage Ebola you absolutely can pass Ebola via droplets into the air at close ranges as in the same room or in an airplane in the surrounding seats. 100% confirmed at Dallas in 2014 with not one but two nurses who where in what they thought at the time was full PPE. They didn’t have full sealing face masks Reyes included they were in N95 masks and face shields, yeah about that Nina got it via her eyes and a droplet made it past her face shield or through the N95 mask she was in double gloves and full body suit plus an additional apron with sleeves so double front covers. It was not a formite transmission at all. 100% droplet transmission.
The WHO better get a handle on this before that whole region swarms into multiple North America cities for FIFA World Cup next month. Not just here but flights in and out of Paris, UAE and Turkey Istanbul where those people will crammed into tight spaces with travlers going to every corner of the globe from those hubs cities.
It’s not some Qtard conspiracy this bug is nasty it’s also highly communicable once in the symptomatic phase even early symptomatic. I will say people don’t know sh1t the CDC placates the sheep. Ebola is THE most studied bug, it is also the bioweapon of choice you can bank on every biolab on earth has and is studying it. Those with security clearance know this for a fact.
Simple truth is if this gets a foothold in Lagos or Paris or Istanbul it can and will go global it’s how much damage it does before it can be stopped with classic travel restrictions and quarantine we know both work it’s why they exist.
I was being sarcastic. is ‘/s’ absolutely necessary?.............
don’t answer any emails from Nigerian princes or Kenyan millionaires, possible infectious.
“I’m not wearing a mask!”
Don’t it won’t help you at all, N95 masks are not going to stop micron sized droplets in mid to late stage Ebola. You need full face shield silicon sealed P100 or better respirators not masks. 40 mm NATO rated NBC filters would also work the B in NBC is for biological warfare. Ebola is THE bug of choice for biowar encapsulated for UV resistance allows for air deployment in micron sized droplets that have float times in hours or days of dropped at FL100 or higher.
Regular unmodified Ebola can linger from coughs, vomit cast off or sneezes in a room for minutes to hours depending on the droplet size single digit micron sized have hang time , double digit drop out in a few min. It’s luck of the draw if.you intake one or one gets dropped into an eye. Nurse Nina got drops behind a face shield and either through her N95 mask or into an eye either way both the face shield and the mask were not effective PPE. That’s documented fact as there was no other means of transmission. Being double gloves and double arm coverings down to booties over the footwear.
So yeah don’t wear a mask, you actually need a full face respirator and really a positive pressure full bio suit wi th a SCBA like the NBC guys use if you want assured protection. Without a suit a tiny skin abrasion or sore or scratch is enough , microscope in size it takes 50 ish Ebola virons to over run your system a single drop in the 3 micron range has that much in it or more one of those you touch and get it into a scratch, micro abrasion, eye, nose,mouth or even ear mucous membrane and you will seroconvert and eventually show active virus symptoms.
This is what I did first out of OCS for the military command of a platoon of NBC soldiers we had the Darth Vader suits exactly what you need for this level BL4 level bug. Just getting in and out of them without cross contamination rendering them useless is a skill joe six pack is not going to accomplish. Again don’t worry about the mask it’s WORTHLESS to you. Even if you had a suit the odds of using it properly are near zero. You need airlock tents, standing decon pools, UV lights, hospital or better yet military grade disinfectants.
My bad, this is about to be a global problem we need to take it seriously or things will get bad it will make covid seem like baby games.
Global air travel will eventually spread a black death level bug around it’s only when not if. That’s without any DNA editing help to make it more communicable. Some bugs are nasty enough as is.
We have banned all flights from the affected countries and refuse entry to anyone that has travelled to those countries in the last month.............
Funny isn't it - politicians and talking heads fret over the best way to deal with diseases imported from the Third World, terrorist cells and poisonous ideologies imported from the Third World, and gang violence from the Third World. All avoiding the obvious solution - keeping Third World people away from the developed world.
Having said that, the threat of Ebola is overhyped - more fearmongering from the media. If it comes here, it will probably infect a handful of people and then fizzle out. It just isn't that contagious compared to lots of other infectious diseases. Even Nigeria was able to contain an outbreak in the slums of Lagos, we should have no problem doing the same. Yet to hear people talk about it, you'd think it was 1918 again and Ebola was the Spanish Flu.
This is NOT the largest infection of Ebola.
“over 900 **suspected** cases “
I cry BS, WHO had many more breakouts.
They are playing around trying to bring on a Pandemic.
“And Hug dead bodies”
COVID in GA spread 4 significant ways.
1) Senior citizens hugging and kissing at the funeral of a COVID victim.
2) Senior citizens hugging when they meet each other a church, at bingo, at the community center, on the special bus for seniors and handicapped.
3) Partime staff driving from gig in one Senior center to the gig in the next senior center.
4) In Hospitals
“And I get on my knees and pray…WE WONT GET FOOLED AGAIN.”
The only way the cabal would release a virus like this is if they’ve already distributed an antidote of some kind amongst their people.
Okay, so this new virus goes crazy and ......
Will Nancy Pelosi ask people to hug people from The Congo?
Well said.
The word ‘Ebola’ could just as easily be replaced with other items damaging to our country: Somali fraud, radical Islam, criminals, those who intend to be reliant on public assistance, persons from low trust societies, those who will not assimilate, etc. All of these risks to Americans need to be controlled.
Watching the decline of the U.K., Germany, France, and others is sickening. Preserving a culture, traditions, social norms, and civic pride is something to fiercely defend. It’s not racism, classism, or whatever the Leftists wish to label it. It is another layer of our border, something meant to protect our nation and citizens.
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