LOL 2020: Congo reports double Ebola outbreak

[hater]

its comedy at this point nigs

The worrysome part: todays outbreak is 1,000 km away from 1st outbreak

[lefty]

We’ll be fine

[spurraider21]

might need to add "Trump Ebola plague" to the count thread

[Millennial_Messiah]

Ebola Zaire in Zaire is not news, it's only scary if it gets to more affluent places like West Africa or Egypt

[Will Hunting]

Unless you plan to handle someone’s bodily fluids or play with dead bodies, you’re not getting Ebola.

[Winehole23]

Marburg is a filovirus too

H/T, Rwanda

In previous outbreaks, Marburg, which is caused by a virus related to Ebola, has killed up to 88 per cent of people infected. And Rwanda had never seen this disease within its borders before the current outbreak began in September. Despite Rwandan physicians having never encountered it before, the mortality rate observed in this outbreak is under 23 per cent – the lowest-ever death rate for a Marburg outbreak in Africa.

as with the outbreak of COVID, it appears fortuitous vaccine related tech was already under development

As soon as Marburg was detected and identified, Rwandan health authorities began an intensive, door-to-door surveillance, testing and contact-tracing operation, ultimately monitoring more than a thousand family members, carers and friends of infected cases. Working with CEPI and the non-profit Sabin Vaccine Ins ute (which was developing the experimental Marburg vaccine), Rwanda was able implement an emergency clinical trial of the vaccine on October 5, 10 days after the outbreak was declared.

Within six weeks, more than 1,700 people, most of them healthcare workers at highest risk of contracting the disease, had been vaccinated. This was the 100 Days Mission, or at least aspects of it, in action. And with the last infected person having recovered 42 days ago, Kigali and the World Health Organization are now able to declare the outbreak over.

Rwanda’s Marburg response is a masterclass in how to prevent pandemics