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Nurse killed in attack while responding to Ebola alert in DR Congo
BBC ^ | Basillioh Rukanga,Emery Makumeno,BBC Africa, KinshasaandMakuochi Okafor,BBC Africa, Lagos

Posted on 10/30/2026 5:18:12 AM PDT by Phoenix8

A nurse has been killed and another health worker seriously injured in an attack as they were responding to an Ebola alert in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The two were targeted by local youths who accused them of contaminating water sources and spreading the Ebola virus, according to the UN-backed Radio Okapi. The World Health Organization (WHO) condemned the attack.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: ebola; epidemic; murder
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Incredibly, she is the SEVENTEENTH health care worker murdered while trying to save their lives. That’s in this outbreak alone.

In all honesty, I can’t imagine any people in the rest of the world as ignorant.

1 posted on 10/30/2026 5:18:12 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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Sorry but don’t be a do-gooder. Let these people die and raise the average IQ.


2 posted on 10/30/2026 5:20:12 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: Phoenix8

Africa always wins.


3 posted on 10/30/2026 5:31:38 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Some people want to control their own life, others want to control the lives of others. )
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To: Phoenix8

I’m sorry for the Nurse and others, who I’m sure were only trying to help.

But what kind of world are we living in where when someone mentions the CCP and Bill Gates controlled World Health Organization (WHO) as possible perpetrators of evil on the population, that we now pause to wonder if what they say could be true or not.


4 posted on 10/30/2026 5:35:09 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: ClearCase_guy

Even in Africa. I can’t see that happening in Tanzania or say Zambia.

Maybe some areas in South Africa, where the hatred caused by Marxism has taken root.


5 posted on 10/30/2026 5:42:52 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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Buried in the story, the lede...

More on that here...

Ebola Fears Mount as Diplomat's Wife Is Evacuated to Switzerland and Nigeria Monitors 52 Contacts The woman is receiving specialist care in Geneva, while her diplomat husband is isolated in Zurich

6 posted on 10/30/2026 5:48:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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When you see those pitiful ads on TV asking you to donate to help poor, diseased, starving Africans, know that you are paying to send a nurse or doctor into the middle of the jungle to be shot or chopped up with a manchette.


7 posted on 10/30/2026 5:52:32 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Then again, if we are sending the nurses who make Tik Toks wishing death on Republicans and conservatives, maybe its not such a bad thing.


8 posted on 10/30/2026 5:53:45 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: mewzilla

The world will remember COVID-19 with fondness if Ebola spreads as a pandemic.

<1% fatality rate versus 45%+.

Which they claim it can’t…become a pandemic I mean.


9 posted on 10/30/2026 5:53:58 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: ClearCase_guy

TIA

This

Is

Africa


10 posted on 10/30/2026 6:51:53 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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I can’t see that happening in Tanzania or say Zambia.

My cousin survived a small plane crash out in the boonies of Zambia. About an hour after the crash a group of villages showed up to see if they could help and ... they spoke English!

11 posted on 10/30/2026 7:11:57 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven)
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To: Phoenix8

BBC very coyly just calls her “a nurse.”

I assume then she was not a local?


12 posted on 10/30/2026 7:12:53 AM PDT by PGR88
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"The editorial cartoon "'The White Man's Burden' (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling)" shows John Bull (U.K.) and Uncle Sam (U.S.) delivering the world's people of colour to civilization (Victor Gillam, Judge magazine, 1 April 1899). The people in the basket carried by Uncle Sam are labelled Cuba, Hawaii, Samoa, "Porto Rico", and Filipino, while the people in the basket carried by John Bull are labelled Zulu, China, India, "Soudan", and Egypt."
13 posted on 10/30/2026 7:14:02 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Phoenix8

Never skip that 26th booster.


14 posted on 10/30/2026 7:48:59 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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A 45% mortality rate means it cannot spread very far without piles of dead bodies—kinda hard to miss and ignore.

The most successful diseases have a low mortality rate.


15 posted on 10/30/2026 7:52:32 AM PDT by cgbg (Four seconds is all it takes to beat the brainwashing.)
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i agree with that much, but can you imagine the amount of fear and insanity if this got loose in civilization? talk about lockdowns


16 posted on 10/30/2026 8:04:50 AM PDT by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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To: ArcadeQuarters

“democratic” = communist. Let ‘em rot.


17 posted on 10/30/2026 8:45:02 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“When you see those pitiful ads on TV asking you to donate to help poor, diseased, starving Africans, know that you are paying to send a nurse or doctor into the middle of the jungle to be shot or chopped up with a manchette.”
When Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa traveled to the West , they went to Washington state in order to create a mission there to the Cayuse Indians. Whitman was not only a missionary but was a doctor as well. He cared for the Cayuse on a daily basis. They had become close and the Indians relied on him. At some point there was an outbreak of measles which devastated the Indians. Whitman tried to help and the thanks he got for it was to have his entire household massacred. This happened because the Cayuse believed that Whitman was a shaman who was poisoning them.Tribal and animistic peoples cannot be trusted.


18 posted on 10/30/2026 9:03:37 AM PDT by sueuprising (The best of it is, God is with us-John Wesley)
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Good post.

I would argue that any people—not just primitive ones—would turn on any outsider in a time of crisis.

We decide what we want to do—and then make up a justification for it.

Usually the justification is utter nonsense.

It is just the way homo sapiens works.


19 posted on 10/30/2026 9:34:31 AM PDT by cgbg (Four seconds is all it takes to beat the brainwashing.)
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To: sueuprising

Good post.

I would argue that any people—not just primitive ones—would turn on any outsider in a time of crisis.

We decide what we want to do—and then make up a justification for it.

Usually the justification is utter nonsense.

It is just the way homo sapiens works.


20 posted on 10/30/2026 9:35:29 AM PDT by cgbg (Four seconds is all it takes to beat the brainwashing.)
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