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Doctors scramble to contain new Ebola outbreak as virus spreads
The Telegraph via msn.com ^ | 9/22/22 | Will Brown

Posted on 09/22/2022 8:31:47 PM PDT by fluorescence

Ebola has spread almost 50 miles through rural communities in Uganda - with cases clustered near a busy road leading from the capital Kampala to the Democratic Republic of Congo, health officials revealed on Thursday.

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“As of today, we have seven confirmed cases of whom we have one confirmed death,” Lt. Col Dr Kyobe Henry Bbosa, who is currently leading Uganda's Ebola response, told journalists. “But we also have seven probable cases that died before the confirmation of the outbreak.”

Dr Bbosa said that authorities had not identified the so-called index case or “patient zero”. But he added that the outbreak appeared to have started around the beginning of September, “when people started dying” in a small village in Mubende district in central Uganda.

So far 43 contacts have been identified, while ten people are believed to have caught the virus. Dr Bbosa added that the infections were spread out over an area of about 70km (43m).

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The outbreak was announced on Tuesday, and is a relatively rare form of the disease known as the Ebola strain.

While there is a tried and tested vaccine for the standard Zaire strain of Ebola, which has been instrumental in halting several outbreaks in DR Congo, no vaccine has been approved to combat the Sudan strain.

WHO officials say they are working hard to identify potential vaccine candidates which might be effective against the Sudan strain. So far, three potential jabs have been identified as potentially effective, with one of them produced in part by Oxford University.

Vaccine approval and manufacturing can take years. But if infections begin to skyrocket and the vaccines are deemed safe, vaccine trials could potentially start in the field within “weeks”, according to Dr Ana Maria Henao-Restrepo from WHO’s epidemics research and development team.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: ebola; uganda
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To: lee martell
Ban visitors from Africa now.
21 posted on 09/22/2022 10:10:22 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: lee martell
Ban visitors from Africa now.
22 posted on 09/22/2022 10:10:22 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: fluorescence

Call Dr. Fauci, he’ll make it a lot worse.


23 posted on 09/22/2022 10:26:48 PM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: frank ballenger

The CDC is the last agency I’d ever expect to rid us of any disease. They seem to think disease is good business for their wallets.


24 posted on 09/22/2022 10:29:40 PM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: Persevero
As for myself I don’t believe anything they say now.

Me neither.

25 posted on 09/22/2022 10:31:12 PM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: fluorescence

I use to have so much respect for doctors.....use to being the key phrase....


26 posted on 09/22/2022 10:33:04 PM PDT by cherry
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To: fluorescence

Biden/Obama “We have to bring the infected here to treat them!”

Kaci Hickox 2.0 coming soon?
(The plan was an ebola pandemic back during Brak’s reign. They tried very hard to make it spread.)


27 posted on 09/22/2022 11:17:49 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: jz638; Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; carriage_hill; Lockbox; MtnClimber; nascarnation; Squantos; ...
A58-CF7-AC-7-E35-452-F-AF06-CF2-A2535299-B

Vaccine approval and manufacturing can take years.

Unless you're phizzler, molderna and the others.


28 posted on 09/23/2022 12:39:09 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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To: LegendHasIt

Why is the baboon that is trying to play God still alive/walking free??


29 posted on 09/23/2022 1:05:08 AM PDT by SPDSHDW (Buy JHP ammo, Level 3/4 armor and rifles. Won’t be able to for much longer, and we’re gonna need em)
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To: fluorescence

Sounds like the commie RAT party can’t wait to get Ebola into America. More control over the people by the Communist Party. We’re screwed again. I never thought I’d live to see the internal enemies of America be allowed to use biological weapons on us.


30 posted on 09/23/2022 3:31:18 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Josef Bidenov is a teenager killer.)
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To: All

We have to have 100% mail-in voting or we’re all gonna die from Ebola...

Signed,
the democrat party


31 posted on 09/23/2022 3:32:39 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: 867V309
To your point, a paper from a couple of years ago...

Ebola: A Hyperinflated Emergency

32 posted on 09/23/2022 3:40:37 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: fluorescence

Having done a fair amount of travelling in rural areas of East (and southern) Africa I’m am absolutely astounded that anyone can live past the age of five. And everything I’ve heard and read suggests that Central,and West,Africa are even worse.


33 posted on 09/23/2022 3:51:25 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: fluorescence
One of the amazing things about an Ebola outbreak is that doctors and nurses typically make up a good percentage of the deaths.
34 posted on 09/23/2022 3:54:09 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: fluorescence
When Obama sent the 101st and 82nd Airborne to west Africa to fight Ebola, he took so much heat from critics that he declassified this study. https://www.docdroid.net/ip2q/defense-threat-reduction-agency-silver-nanoparticles-neutralize-hemorrhagic-fever-viruses-pdf. Page 18 shows an ion of silver binding to the enzyme the protein uses to fold so the virus can replicate. It can't fold, it can't replicate.
35 posted on 09/23/2022 4:05:56 AM PDT by DocRock
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To: fluorescence

Quick, kill er vaccinate everyone.


36 posted on 09/23/2022 5:05:37 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Check this out..

Monitoring of Adverse Events in Recipients of the 2-Dose Ebola Vaccine Regimen of Ad26.ZEBOV Followed by MVA-BN-Filo in the UMURINZI Ebola Vaccination Campaign

I won't print the rest of what I'm thinking. It's...not polite.

37 posted on 09/23/2022 5:21:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: fluorescence; Smokin' Joe; Black Agnes; caww; PA Engineer; Dark Wing; Odunayo; Covenantor; ...

Ebola update (9/22/22)


38 posted on 09/23/2022 11:19:25 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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