Hantavirus, Ebola & Other Outbreaks 🦠
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Ebola outbreak in DR Congo: Angry crowd sets Rwampara hospital tents on fire
Grieving relatives and friends of a suspected Ebola victim were prevented from taking his body for burial.
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Nice to see real science still being practiced somewhere.
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White House Tells Congo’s Soccer Team to Isolate, Citing Ebola Outbreak
The team, now in Belgium, must isolate there for 21 days or risk being denied permission to come to Houston for the World Cup, an official said.
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U.S. Ebola Travel Ban Faces Criticism From Congo Health Officials
Kinshasa residents continue to pack markets, bars and public transportation, despite growing international concern about the spread of the virus.
“… Spanning more than 900,000 square miles, Congo is nearly six times the size of California. The distance between the center of the Ebola outbreak, Ituri Province in the northeast, and Kinshasa is roughly 950 miles, about the distance to Orlando from New York.
And there is not much travel between Kinshasa and Ituri because of poor roads, reducing the likelihood of the outbreak spreading to the capital, said Tulio de Oliveira, the director of the Center for Epidemic Response and Innovation at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
That is why, Dr. de Oliveira said, the United States would be better served by supporting the affected countries in order to stem the outbreak at its source, rather than “establish a travel ban or isolation of all patients who come from such a large country.”…”
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There's no band-aid for lack of US Aid.
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https://wapo.st/4dIFpfX“… The initial plan is to have a 50-bed unit within a week and the potential to expand to 250 beds later, one of the people said.
Members of the U.S. Public Health Service have already begun training at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to staff the Kenya facility, according to two people familiar with the response. One person expressed concern that the training period was only three days, which experts say is not sufficient….”
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“… The initial plan is to have a 50-bed unit within a week and the potential to expand to 250 beds later, one of the people said.
Members of the U.S. Public Health Service have already begun training at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to staff the Kenya facility, according to two people familiar with the response. One person expressed concern that the training period was only three days, which experts say is not sufficient….”
“… The administration’s Kenya quarantine plan also reflects White House officials’ resistance to bringing Ebola-exposed or infected Americans back to the United States, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The Washington Post previously reported that White House officials did not allow an American doctor infected with Ebola in Congo to return to the United States for treatment, pushing instead for his evacuation to Germany. Another doctor working for the same missionary nonprofit was evacuated to Prague.…”
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“… Senior U.S. officials said the 50-bed unit at an air force base in central Kenya would serve Americans who have been exposed to the virus but are still asymptomatic and would become operational on Friday.
Patients who develop symptoms would be sent for care in other countries outside the U.S., the officials said.
The plan to bring in Americans exposed to the outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has drawn sharp opposition among many Kenyans since it came to light earlier this week.
… U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has said it "cannot and will not allow" any cases of Ebola to enter the country, unlike during the 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa when several infected U.S. nationals were treated on U.S. soil.
… Kenya has pushed for the facility to be open to all nationalities, not just U.S. citizens, but it is not clear if that will be the case. The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it would commit $13.5 million toward Kenya's Ebola preparedness efforts.
Since the outbreak was confirmed in mid-May, there have been more than 1,000 suspected and confirmed cases, including 246 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.…”
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Reminds me a sad story a few years ago when the WVa legislature passed a bill fighting the opiod epidemic They allocated 5 million dollars
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