Replaced by.... ZIKA!

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Replaced by.... ZIKA!

I hate that stuff, it's got the wrong texture, accidentally bought some, instead of penne, and the dish just didn't taste right.

You only get to pick one:

1) The Comet (my particular favorite)
2) The weather (sub-options are Fire, Ice)
3) Bugs (generic all, prions to protozoa); let's even throw in arachnids
4) Aliens (distinct from bugs, although some may appear superficially similar)

You'll note the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is not included, but could be a write-in. Choose, and perish. Always wanted to say that....

Obama's Ebola Czar killed it and then went quietly home.

RMD

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Originally posted by parabellum:
West Nile Virus, SARS, Hanta Virus, Ebola, Zika, Zima, what have you.

Tools used as scare tactics by the press, to generate ad revenue.

When the shit gets real, you'll know it.

Well we are safe from Zima at least.

It’s still out there and on the rise. Spreading as folks flee DRC.

Wonder how long until we get general panic again? Everyone still have their ‘bola bugout bag ready? Maybe CA quakes will save this for a later date?

Shame the original thread from 2014 got pruned.

51 new cases!!!

WHO; Outbreak continues at normal pace (whatever that is).

You just summoned it again you bastard! We’re all gonna die....

"SPILLOVER", by David Quammen, is an interesting book that covers this as well as other 'animal' infections that 'spillover' to humans.

https://www.amazon.com/Spillov...gid=pla-450571301471

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Originally posted by Texas Bob C.:

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Originally posted by brywards:
In 2014, the US military deployed to affected countries in Africa and taught the local populace to not cook/wash/bathe in the same waters they shit and how to wash their freakin' hands, so that took care of the bulk of the issue. Filthy savages...literally.

Sometimes I wish this forum had a 'thumbs up' option I could click on posts or replies.

I’m so with you.
But I have seen sig-nifigant issues with this method.

Ebola is a very real threat; it generally hasn't spread far, but it's extremely nasty, and very scary.

When outbreaks occur, we're often going to the site of the outbreak, frequently. There's nothing false or fake about it.

The problem in the DRC presently is a very unstable area, warring groups and rebels, and a refusal to allow personnel in, or threats to personnel and theft of mediations and supplies. The local infrastructure for identification and reporting is often lacking, and the control for flow of people to and from is sporadic and poor. There was moderate success with an experimental vaccine and treatment not long ago.

Presently this doesn't threaten a global pandemic, though mishandled it potentially could. For those in the affected areas, though it's about as real and as serious as it can get.

I read an article just a day or so ago that gave a history of the airline that has built up the ability to transport patients with those diseases. Pretty good read.

https://www.popularmechanics.c...scue-ebola-patients/

Ebola kills about 50% of its victims in poor backwater countries in Africa. In western countries with access to good health care it would be far lower.

Honestly, I don’t know why flu doesn’t get as much press as Ebola. Flu kills in the neighborhood of half a million people annually around the world. In 2018, around 80,000 deaths occurred in the US that were attributable to flu. Flu in its many strains are one of our species oldest and most deadly nemesis's.

Ebola outbreak in Congo declared a global health emergency
POSTED 12:20 PM, JULY 17, 2019, BY ASSOCIATED PRESS, UPDATED AT 12:25PM, JULY 17, 2019

GENEVA — The deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency, the World Health Organization announced Wednesday after the virus spread this week to a city of 2 million people.

A WHO expert committee had declined on three previous occasions to advise the United Nations health agency to make the declaration for this outbreak, which other experts say has long met the conditions.

More than 1,600 people have died since August in the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, which is unfolding in a region described as a war zone.

This week the first Ebola case was confirmed in Goma, a major regional crossroads in northeastern Congo on the Rwandan border with an international airport. Health experts have feared this scenario for months.

A declaration of a global health emergency often brings greater international attention and aid, along with concerns that nervous governments might overreact with border closures.

While the risk of regional spread remains high the risk outside the region remains low, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said after the announcement in Geneva.

“The (international emergency) should not be used to stigmatize or penalize the very people who are most in need of our help,” he said.

This is the fifth such declaration in history.

Previous emergencies were declared for the devastating 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa that killed more than 11,000 people, the emergence of Zika in the Americas, the swine flu pandemic and polio eradication.

WHO defines a global emergency as an “extraordinary event” which constitutes a risk to other countries and requires a coordinated international response.

Last month this outbreak spilled across the border for the first time when a family brought the virus into Uganda after attending the burial in Congo of an infected relative. Even then, the expert committee advised against a declaration.

Alexandra Phelan, a global health expert at Georgetown University Law Center, said Wednesday’s declaration was long overdue.

“This essentially serves as a call to the international community that they have to step up appropriate financial and technical support,” she said but warned that countries should be wary of imposing travel or trade restrictions.

“Those restrictions would actually restrict the flow of goods and health care workers into affected countries so they are counter-productive,” she said.

Future emergency declarations might be perceived as punishment and “might result in other countries not reporting outbreaks in the future, which puts us all at greater risk.”

WHO had been heavily criticized for its sluggish response to the West Africa outbreak, which it repeatedly declined to declare a global emergency until the virus was spreading explosively in three countries and nearly 1,000 people were dead.

Internal documents later showed WHO held off partly out of fear a declaration would anger the countries involved and hurt their economies.

The current outbreak is spreading in a turbulent Congo border region where dozens of rebel groups are active and where Ebola had not been experienced before.

Efforts to contain the virus have been hurt by mistrust by wary locals that has prompted deadly attacks on health workers. Some infected people have deliberately evaded health authorities.

The pastor who brought Ebola to Goma used several fake names to conceal his identity on his way to the city, Congolese officials said.

WHO on Tuesday said the man had died and health workers were scrambling to trace dozens of his contacts, including those who had traveled on the same bus.

There was no immediate reaction to WHO’s emergency declaration from Congo’s health ministry, which had lobbied against it.

“Calling for a (global emergency) to raise funds while ignoring the negative consequences for (Congo) is reckless,” the ministry tweeted after an editorial by Britain’s secretary of state for international development in favor of a declaration.

Rory Stewart announced earlier this week that Britain would donate up to another $63 million for the Ebola response and called for other countries, especially Francophone ones, to increase their support.

At a U.N. meeting on Ebola in Geneva on Tuesday, Congo’s health minister, Dr. Oly Ilunga, said the outbreak was “not a humanitarian crisis” and that the risk of Ebola spreading to other cities or regions in Congo remained the same.

“Ebola is not rocket science, it’s very simple,” he said.

WHO has long called the regional Ebola risk “very high.”

Earlier this week, Ugandan health officials said a Congolese fish trader had traveled to Uganda while sick and vomited several times at a local market.

The woman returned to Congo last week and died after testing positive for Ebola. Ugandan officials estimate almost 600 people could be targeted for vaccination and follow-up.

Those working in the field say the outbreak is clearly taking a turn for the worse despite advances in this outbreak that include the widespread use of an experimental but effective Ebola vaccine.

Dr. Maurice Kakule was one of the first people to survive the current outbreak after he fell ill while treating a woman last July before the outbreak had even been declared.

“What is clear is that Ebola is an emergency because the epidemic persists despite every possible effort to educate people,” he told the Geneva meeting.

“We have sufficiently informed them about the existence of this disease but there are still people who don’t want to believe that it does.”

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Originally posted by SigSAC:
I read an article just a day or so ago that gave a history of the airline that has built up the ability to transport patients with those diseases. Pretty good read.

https://www.popularmechanics.c...scue-ebola-patients/

That was a great read. Thank you.

I thought I was feeling a mite poorly. Must be that case of the 'bola flaring up.

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Originally posted by HKg3:
Ebola is still around and we are still working on a vaccine with USAMRID, CDC, NIH, and WHO. Ebola outbreaks tend to burn out quickly compared to other diseases due to the high mortality and route of transmission.

Hopefully, the vaccine will help both as a preventative and theraputic measure. The initial testing has been encouraging but now funding has been shifted due to the outbreak winding down.

Just some info from the vaccine world,

Mike (Molecular Biologist and Immunologist)

Thank you for your perspective.

It's getting worse- Thu July 18, 2019

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Ebola outbreak in Congo is a public health emergency of international concern, WHO says.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17...africa-bn/index.html

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Originally posted by braillediver:
It's getting worse- Thu July 18, 2019

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Ebola outbreak in Congo is a public health emergency of international concern, WHO says.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17...africa-bn/index.html

Literally 4 posts above yours...

I'm in Nairobi at the moment. I just came from the Congo. It's being talked about. It's spread, and new cases have been found in cities where it was previously unreported or unknown. Effective treatment or control continues to be a problem because of political unrest.

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More than 1,600 people have died since August

And:

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Previous emergencies were declared for the devastating 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa that killed more than 11,000 people

Again, in 2018, flu caused or contributed to 1/2 a million deaths globally and 80,000 deaths in the US alone. The areas in Africa that Ebola kills so effectively in are lacking in even basic western style medical care. In places where family members ignorantly handle the dead, along with their bodily fluids because of traditional practices. Ebola will not gain a foothold in the US.

I really wish everyone would stop acting like Rick Grimes is going to wake up in the hospital any minute.