‘Walking Ebola’ helps explain why Congo’s outbreak is so hard to stop

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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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.

Tho the mainstream media will not cover it, polio outbreaks, measles outbreaks, whooping cough outbreaks and even bedbug outbreaks as well as others have been and are traceable back to UN medically screened. Criminal Illegal Alien Scum.

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.....”

Now we have walking EBOLA?

THIS should scare the shit out of everyone and what's 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

~ **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.

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