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Posted on 07/17/2026 7:06:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Some doctors call it “walking Ebola” – symptoms of the rare Bundibugyo strain appear to worsen slowly, leaving patients sick enough to spread the virus but not so unwell to stop them moving through their communities.
The pattern emerging in the Democratic Republic of Congo resonated with virologist Corri Levine, who devoted her doctoral research to Bundibugyo years before it caused the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record.
Studying the virus in a biocontainment laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Levine found it replicated more slowly than the Zaire strain responsible for a devastating epidemic that swept West Africa a decade ago.
“Walking Ebola” was “an ‘aha’ moment for me”, Levine said. “If it’s growing slower in the person, you might start having some symptoms, but not enough to make you feel so crummy that you can’t move. It’s this longer, prolonged disease course.”
That slower progression carries another risk. Patients with Ebola have consistently had the best chance of survival when treated early, before rising virus levels drive the disease toward septic shock and multi-organ failure.
If Bundibugyo gives doctors a longer opportunity to intervene before reaching that point, antiviral drugs may have a better chance of altering the course of the disease.
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That sounds a lot worse than a long time ago, when
I had the Walkin’ Pneumonia & the Boogie-Woogie Flu!
Hemorrhagic viri suck, just saying.
fortunately there are ez AI ways to make sure they are not imported.
nice to to try saying that any way.
Unfortunately the flocking - metroplolis.ai systems are not designed for that at all.
I sometimes wonder if a flocky discussion would be appropriate here.
They should all wear masks. That would take care of it. 🤡
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