Posted on 06/13/2026 3:34:20 PM PDT by dynachrome
Olivier le Polain, an epidemiologist with the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), said on Friday that there are still “many blind spots in some areas that are high risk,” so the full extent of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains unclear.
“Surveillance really needs to be strengthened in those areas,” he advised. “The full scale of the outbreak is not yet clear, and we’ll get more clarity as surveillance improves.”
Le Polain, who spoke from the North Kivu provincial capital of Beni in the DRC, delivered the alarming revelation that new Ebola cases are still popping up in different health zones of the North Kivu, South Kivu, and Ituri provinces almost every day. The pattern of new cases suggests that infected people are spreading Ebola by moving between different communities in the eastern Congo.
“The outbreak continues to expand both in terms of case numbers but also in terms of geographic spread. That reflects really the scale of this outbreak – a scale that is much bigger than what is being detected, and the high mobility of the population,” he warned.
In addition to enhanced surveillance and contact tracing, Le Polain said the outbreak region desperately needs more isolation beds to contain the outbreak. He said all three provinces combined only have about 250 isolation beds at the moment.
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what happened to the hanta?
Why does it feel as though there are people behind the scenes who are rooting for Ebola to go worldwide?
Ebola wouldn’t spread so much if the people in Africa calmed down with their dead body practices. You cannot hug and dance with the bodies of your loved ones after they’ve died from Ebola.
Ebola doesn’t usually spread far because it kills the host rather quickly. It’s not something to be feared in the US, unless your neighbor is waltzing down the street with Dead Karen.
“Give us more money. Orange man bad!”
I heard this virtually exact argument by a loonie. Loss of NIH funding and personnel, no funding for NGOs in the region, withdrawal from WHO, all because of Pres. Trump. And the result will be deadly plagues throughout the world.
She didn’t say it exactly, but it was pretty obvious she thought civilization will fall through a series of unstoppable plagues, and it’s all Trumps’s fault.
Well, this is an election year, so the commie woketards have to do something to keep their preferred methods of cheating (mail-in ballots and dirty voter rolls) active.
Nothing good has ever come out of Africa.
,,, or the WHO.
They finally found their Newest Disease
to Reduce the Global Population?
Trying to start another pandemic, eh?
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