Posted on 05/19/2026 5:39:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
At least 131 people are believed to have died and 531 infected in the outbreak, according to health authorities in central Africa. An American missionary was among those who tested positive for the deadly disease.
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The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in central Africa rose sharply Tuesday, with the head of the World Health Organization expressing concern over the “scale and speed of the epidemic.”
At least 131 people are believed to have died and 531 suspected to have been infected in the latest outbreak, according to the Congolese Health Ministry. An American missionary was among those who tested positive for the deadly disease.
Global health experts are worried about the capacity of this outbreak to cause widespread illness and death in central Africa — not least because this rare strain of the disease, the Bundibugyo virus, has no approved vaccine or treatment. The outbreak was also undetected for weeks, adding to the complexities in containing it.
Cases have been reported as far away as the capital, Kinshasa, some 600 miles from the outbreak’s epicenter in the eastern Ituri province, as well as in neighboring Uganda.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said early Tuesday that he was “deeply concerned about the scale and speed of the epidemic.”
The number of suspected cases has risen dramatically from the 300 believed infected and 88 killed as of Monday.
Also cause for concern is the presence of cases in urban areas, the deaths of healthcare workers and significant population movement in the region, as well as a lack of vaccines, Tedros said.
WHO’s emergency committee is set to convene later Tuesday to discuss the outbreak.
The United Nations’ health agency said six tons of supplies were set to arrive in Congo on Tuesday, including personal protective equipment and other medical supplies.
President Donald Trump said that he too was “concerned” about the situation, noting that the outbreak was so far confined to central Africa. Health experts say the likelihood of Ebola spreading in wealthy countries is very low because it spreads through bodily fluids rather than in the air.
Among those infected is a U.S. citizen who has tested positive and been flown to Germany, Tedros told the 79th World Health Assembly in Geneva.
Germany was doing so at the request of the U.S. government, a German Health Ministry spokesperson told NBC News. The country has “a nationwide network of experts for the management and care of patients with diseases caused by highly pathogenic agents,” the spokesperson said.
An American missionary named Dr. Peter Stafford has tested positive for the virus, according to the international missionary organization Serge. He was exposed to the virus while treating patients in Nyankunde Hospital in the northeastern corner of Congo, where he has worked since 2023, Serge said.
He got tested after presenting with symptoms of the virus, which includes fever, muscle fatigue, diarrhea and vomiting.
Two other physicians working in the region, including his wife, Dr. Rebekah Stafford, and another man, Dr. Patrick LaRochelle, remain asymptomatic but were keeping to strict quarantine protocols, Serge said.
It was not clear from the missionary group’s statement whether Stafford was the same American being airlifted to Germany.
Trump left WHO in January, citing what he said was its poor management of the Covid pandemic.
Health officials and experts have said this, along with Trump’s slashing of bodies such as the now-dismantled U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, could hamper the response to the current outbreak and others like it in the future.
Amid a global cost-of-living crisis, other Western governments have also cut their aid programs.
Anne Ancia, WHO’s representative in Congo, said Tuesday her organization had been working “very well” with the U.S. government on the Ebola outbreak but that reductions in health funding have had a “tremendous impact” on its ability to counter the disease.
The State Department said it was “false to claim that the USAID reform has negatively impacted our ability to respond to Ebola.”
“In fact, by bringing USAID global health functions under the new GHSD bureau at the State Department, our efforts are more aligned and effective,” a spokesman said, referring to the Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy. “Funding and support to combat Ebola continue, working with allies and partners, with additional announcements forthcoming.”
There have been only a couple of previous Bundibugyo outbreaks — one in Uganda in 2007 and one in Congo in 2012. The fatality rate during those incidents ranged from 30% to 50%, according to WHO.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Hantavirus, Ebola, the monkey flu, Fentanyl, meth, mentally disturb kids running in chimpanzee style tribes destroying Mexican food joints. Political blue-haired old ladies afflicted with Tourette Syndrome screaming, howling and throwing bricks at Federal law enforcemment officers. Not looking good. I think God has stopped blessing America.
Per AI...
“Unlike highly contagious airborne illnesses such as measles, Ebola is not transmitted through the air or by casual contact. Instead, transmission requires direct contact with body fluids (e.g., blood, saliva, sweat, vomit) from an infected, symptomatic person.”
I do not believe that, else it would not spread so fast............
the FIFA cup starts next month. Houston is where the Congo team is based out of for it , their first match and tens of thousands of people from Congo are coming through the capital city with confirmed cases what could possibly go wrong. Atlanta has game 2 for the Congo. Maybe just maybe we should ban not only the team but anyone from the Congo from flying here just a thought.
It also has a VERY fast burn rate making it self-deleting. The virus works to fast on its host to allow an effective window of transmission.
This is pure fear porn for the elite in the hopes of manipulating the proles.
Yes, is it dangerous and I feel for those impacted but this IS NOT a global issue. We are being lied to again by those who hate us.
Nina got it in 2014 behind full hospital PPE and face shields and N95 masks. It was the eyes it settled into absolutely droplet transmission. It’s really not up for debate late stage Ebola in the hemorrhagic phase is loading the air with virus how far it carries is the only question. The CDC and WHO lie all the time to keep the sheep calm. There is plenty of research to back up droplet transmission that’s not aerosol particles in breath like measles it’s droplets in the mid digit micron size that coughs produce, vomit cast off, sneezes too. You hemorrhage fluids out of every hole in late stage Ebola every pin head sized drop can infect a person. There is a reason you see people in full SCBA suits around Ebola patients it’s not for show.
Now I have two reasons. #boycottWorldCup
It doesn’t, except to family, caregivers, medical professionals.
If you’d like to geek out, per AI, sourced to the NIH...
“The basic reproduction number (\(R_{0}\)) for Ebola generally ranges between 1.5 and 2.0, meaning each infected person typically transmits the virus to 1 to 2 others. However, this rate can fluctuate during outbreaks and has been estimated to fall anywhere between 1.3 and 2.5 depending on the region, population density, and implemented control measures.”
Measles RO falls between 12 and 18.
Ebola has a 8-10 day incubation period up to 21 days that is plenty of time to get far and wide from the hotzone. It’s 36 hours from deep jungle DRC to DFW I have done it in 30 via Paris for cobalt exploration.
Once sick yeah it’s 48 hours to crash someone out they carries the bug for up to 3 weeks beforehand though. It’s up for debate how much virus is shed before the first symptoms appear. Once they do that person is a walking viral bomb.
Again world cup is coming next month the Congo is coming to Houston by the tens of thousands it only takes a couple sick ones to start a chain of infection here.
Dallas lucked out in 2014 and two nurse’s were infected despite being in head to toe PPE , masks and face shields. Nina was a friend she survived and got a HUGE settlement from the hospital for them not having them in full body hazmat type suits with air tanks not N95 masks.
“Measles RO falls between 12 and 18.”
There are only two virus with similar R0
Small pox before the vaccine an covid specificity Omicron reached a R0 of 10-12
Even though it’s not classified as an “airborne” virus, it can be projected through the air in a droplet of saliva or mucous from a cough or a sneeze, is what I’ve read. One of the ways covid and others are also spread. So, a person probably doesn’t have to have physical contact to contract it. Ebola has an average 50% fatality rate and survivors can have serious long term after effects. So, while it doesn’t spread as easily as other viruses, given it’s terminal outcomes, I wouldn’t want to be in crowd of people close together where some of those people were infected.....
Like in an aircraft....................
They are only a viral bomb if you have some form of physical, typically intimate contact. This does not spread airborne and actually hard to spread even through incidental contact. First, you must contact a bodily fluid THEN still allow it an entry vector, is does not pass through skin and again not airborne
Plus, to even get a strain started one has to come in contact with fruit bats already infected.
It burns out fast as I said, there is no reason other than ignorance and stupidity for anyone traveling to such areas to not be tested and / or maintain a 21-day wait period before going back to gen pop, stupidity causes these outbreaks and I maintain still they are over hyped, super easy to contain.
Irony is most of team USA usually 1/2 are not native born Americans. This roster has not been finalized so it’s unknown the split this cup.
USA men’s has never been a global power team. Quarter finals in the modern era and only once.
Women’s on the other hand is the most winniest team in women’s FIFA history four time champs more than any other national team.
Irony is most of team USA usually 1/2 are not native born Americans.
That’s true of most teams now. France is practically African, and the Swiss team is almost all Albanians.
Also, Ebola is commonly considered transmissible WHEN it shows symptoms, which means again easy to contain and it requires contact with the fluids. We need to start taking such regions serious and bring back reasonable quarantine times like societies had in the past.
Nope, tell yourself that I was an NBC specialist a butter bar over a platoon my first command. 74A is the MOS. You flat out are wrong about late stage Ebola transmission modes.
I challenge you to sit in the same room as a late stage Ebola person just sit there for 30 mins. Nina was in full head to toe hospital grade PPE, double gloves, head covering, face shield, N95 mask, booties and double apron over a Tyvek suit. It was droplets that was proven the two cases speak for themselves plus you are not a security clearance hokder. There is no more studied bug than Ebola in the bioweapons field it is THE bug.
If you are in close proximity not contact proximity to a late stage Ebola person they cough you breathe in the same room and get a single 5 micron drop in an eye, nose membrane or mouth via air movement alone that single particle will have the 50 virus needed to infect you bank in it. Again this is the most studied bug by the Darth vader guys who then trained us to fight in such an environment and keep our troops safe for these threats you know what the mouth pieces feed. Nina is living proof of what the intel and classified community has known for years don’t be in the air flow area of a bleeding out viral bomb.
Fun test , get in a Darth Vader suit, you get sprayed with sticky colored and UV dyed liquid all over the outside of it at random spots. You and your battle buddy then must decon in an airlock tent in multiple standing pools. Then you must move to the decon area and get out of said suit. A single droplet is a fail, then the lights go out and a single UV glow spot even pin head size is a fail. Professionals struggle to do this, how six pack has no chance what so ever of avoiding contamination. Yeah this is what 74A do NBC that’s nuclear BIOLOGICAL and chemical warfare the US is the world leaders in it.
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