EBOLA EBOLA-- It's baaaack!

[Milk-maid]

https://apnews.com/8331bfb7200948d292fb87630a02fa05

Confirmed Ebola cases rise to 13 in Congo’s latest outbreak
By SALEH MWANAMILONGO
Yesterday

INSHASA, Congo (AP) — The number of confirmed cases in Congo’s new outbreak of the Ebola virus has risen to 13, including three deaths, the health ministry said late Saturday.

The World Health Organization has warned that this new outbreak of the deadly virus in North Kivu province poses a particular challenge as the region is a “war zone” with several active armed groups and thousands of displaced people.

The nearby city of Beni and heavily traveled borders with Uganda and Rwanda also complicate efforts to contain the disease, which is spread via contact with the bodily fluids of those infected, including the dead.

Congo announced the latest outbreak on Wednesday with four confirmed cases, a week after declaring the end to a previous outbreak in the northwest with 33 deaths.

It is not clear whether the new outbreak, more than 2,500 kilometers (1,553 miles) away, is related.

The ministry noted 30 probable Ebola cases in the new outbreak and said another 33 suspected cases were under investigation, with laboratory testing underway. Overall 33 people have died, it said.

The swift vaccinations of more than 3,300 people helped in containing the previous outbreak, and WHO has said it hopes to know as early as Tuesday whether the Ebola strain in this new outbreak is the one for which the vaccine can be used.

The WHO emergencies director has said 3,000 vaccine doses are still in Congo’s capital after being positioned there for the earlier outbreak. WHO can mobilize up to 300,000 more doses “at very short notice,” Dr. Peter Salama said Friday. Congo’s health ministry said vaccines would be moved from Kinshasa to Beni as soon as the “cold chain” to keep them at the optimal temperature of minus 70 degrees Celsius is reached.

Congo has dealt with Ebola for decades and this is its tenth outbreak of the virus. Ebola, first identified in the country in 1976, jumps to humans from animals including bats and monkeys. There is no specific treatment, and the virus can be fatal in up to 90 percent of cases, depending on the strain.

WHO has said the “signal event” in the new outbreak was the death of a 65-year-old woman who had been admitted to the hospital in Mangina village. “She was buried, we believe, in an unsafe burial in terms of Ebola standards and seven deaths have occurred in her immediate family,” Salama said.

Congo’s health ministry said health officials also were looking at suspected cases in the neighboring province of Ituri to the north, which also shares a short stretch of border with South Sudan. The ministry said overall more than 875 contacts had been registered as teams try to track down anyone who might have been in touch with those infected.

With the region’s armed groups in mind, the ministry said it was working with Congo’s defense ministry and the U.N. peacekeeping mission on security for health workers and the community at large.
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[Garand]

I don't think it ever went away. Weren't they testing for it here in the USA couple of weeks?

 

[Profit of Doom]

“Congo’s health ministry said vaccines would be moved from Kinshasa to Beni as soon as the “cold chain” to keep them at the optimal temperature of minus 70 degrees Celsius is reached.”

Is this a misprint?
That’s about the temp of dry ice, isn’t it?

 

[Dennis Olson]

NOTE: We have an EBOLA thread prefix.

 

[Coco82919]

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[alpha]

Doomer Doug... paging Doomer Doug...

 

[Doomer Doug]

Ebola is mutating and spreading more widely

Like I have said on multiple posts we are dealing with the dysfunctional, dismal African health care system. They just don't have even the most basic stuff, like cleaning agents, gloves, beds etc. The result of that is continual disease outbreaks. Ebola is now chronic in the Congo, which means it never goes away, and new outbreaks happen from time to time. Further, Congo declaring the first recent outbreak "over," means nothing. This current ebola outbreak is a continuation of the one they just said was over. Finally, this new outbreak is happening in a war zone, with all the level of complete chaos that implies. They are going to need Seal Team Six to escort any medical workers into the area. They are going to need a mobile, highly technical medical equipment system just to get any medical stuff to where it is needed.

Yep, it is like a slot machine with all the lemons spinning. Sooner or later, likely sooner, all three Ebola lemons are going to line up and we will get at a minimum a regional outbreak. Madagascar is about to enter another airborne vector plague season, Ebola is spreading more widely in the Congo, and nothing can be done about that.

As long as Ebola stays "over there," it is a non story for us, assuming it doesn't get "over here," this is just more African feces. Ebola will continue to spread in the Congo and the feeble Western efforts to control it will continue to fail. The other thing going on here is Ebola continues to mutate, which means the "vaccine" they have developed is likely worthless at this point.

We are all going to die.

 

[Profit of Doom]

Like I have said on multiple posts we are dealing with the dysfunctional, dismal African health care system. They just don't have even the most basic stuff, like cleaning agents, gloves, beds etc. The result of that is continual disease outbreaks. Ebola is now chronic in the Congo, which means it never goes away, and new outbreaks happen from time to time. Further, Congo declaring the first recent outbreak "over," means nothing. This current ebola outbreak is a continuation of the one they just said was over. Finally, this new outbreak is happening in a war zone, with all the level of complete chaos that implies. They are going to need Seal Team Six to escort any medical workers into the area. They are going to need a mobile, highly technical medical equipment system just to get any medical stuff to where it is needed.

Yep, it is like a slot machine with all the lemons spinning. Sooner or later, likely sooner, all three Ebola lemons are going to line up and we will get at a minimum a regional outbreak. Madagascar is about to enter another airborne vector plague season, Ebola is spreading more widely in the Congo, and nothing can be done about that.

As long as Ebola stays "over there," it is a non story for us, assuming it doesn't get "over here," this is just more African feces. Ebola will continue to spread in the Congo and the feeble Western efforts to control it will continue to fail. The other thing going on here is Ebola continues to mutate, which means the "vaccine" they have developed is likely worthless at this point.

We are all going to die.

Welcome! Was getting concerned, took you over seven hours to get here
Now I feel better knowing we’re going to die.

 

[night driver]

paging Aesop at Raconteur Report. Haven't seen him in over a week.

 

[fi103r]

additional info from AP

https://www.apnews.com/382d17bc04f2...outbreak-more-challenging-than-ever,-WHO-says

love the note ‘...vaccines are not enough’
opening para below,
I was pleased to see some coverage but it turned into the usuall send $$$ hmmm World Health Org has a budget of 4BILLION$ WTF do they spend it on?
I know, don’t ask embarassing questions

BENI, Congo (AP) — Armed groups, dense populations and mass displacement make Congo’s latest deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus more challenging than ever to contain, the World Health Organization’s chief said Friday.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke after vaccinations began this week, with support from a U.N. peacekeeping mission, in Congo’s restive northeast where multiple rebel groups pose a threat and a heavily traveled border with Uganda is nearby.

 

[CaryC]

We are all going to die.

No truer words were ever spoken. For the most part. LOL

 

[Doomer Doug]

Here we go!

https://www.statnews.com/2018/08/16/ebola-outbreak-challenges/

Health
Ebola outbreak shaping up as most dangerous test of world’s ability to respond since global crisis

By Helen Branswell @HelenBranswell

August 16, 2018



he latest Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is shaping up to be the most dangerous and difficult test of the world’s ability to contain the disease since the catastrophic West African outbreak in 2014 and 2015.

Like an outbreak earlier this year, in the western part of the country, cases have been reported across multiple locations, disease transmission is taking place in cities where hundreds of thousands of people live, and there’s the potential for the virus to spread across several international borders.

But this outbreak is occurring in a part of the Congo that has long been a conflict zone, with over 1 million displaced people, scores of armed combatant groups, and “red zones” where outsiders hoping to contain a deadly disease may not be able to travel.

The possibility that the virus could spread unchecked in one of these areas raises prospects of an outbreak that could make this year’s earlier brush with Ebola seem like a training exercise.

“That’s really the worst-case scenario: That we can’t get in quickly enough to an alert [of possible cases] or we just have a blind spot because of security. And then an outbreak really begins to take hold in those blind spots and becomes a multicountry regional outbreak,’’ Dr. Peter Salama, the World Health Organization’s deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and response, told STAT.

“That’s what keeps me up at night.”
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The outbreak was declared in North Kivu on Aug. 1, a week after the previous epidemic was deemed contained. Genetic analysis of viruses from the two show that while they are caused by the same species of ebolaviruses, Ebola Zaire, they are not linked.

Two weeks into this outbreak, the toll has already surpassed that of the earlier epidemic, which was centered around Bikoro, near DRC’s western border. There were 54 cases and 33 deaths over roughly four months in the Bikoro outbreak. As of Tuesday, there were 73 confirmed and probable cases and 43 deaths in North Kivu, and the case count is rising steadily.
IN FOUR MONTHS OF THE FIRST EBOLA OUTBREAK THERE WERE 54 CASES AND 33 DEATHS. THAT OUTBREAK HAS BEEN DECLARED "OVER." IN THIS CURRENT ONE DURING THE FIRST TWO WEEKS, YES THE FIRST TWO WEEKS YOU HAVE 73 CONFIRMED CASES AND 43 DEATHS. THEY ALSO ADMIT THEY CAN DO LITTLE TO DEAL WITH IT. LOCK AND LOAD, GANG.

North Kivu is in northeastern Congo, near the border with Uganda and Rwanda. It’s the country’s most populous province, with 8 million people. It is also its most dangerous.

Under a scoring system used by the U.N. to determine the level of risk for its personnel in conflict zones, North Kivu is at level 4. Level 5 means the U.N. must evacuate; it is simply too perilous to be present.

The security concerns mean that the WHO insists responders have armed escorts as they move about — a requirement the medical aid group Doctors Without Borders always refuses on the ground that it undermines the group’s ability to claim neutrality.

The operational strictures they face mean Ebola responders will need to be “very flexible” and “pragmatic,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said this week in Geneva.


Already that has led to trimming of ambitions. Whereas in the Bikoro outbreak the WHO hoped to run trials of five experimental Ebola therapies, this time there is no immediate thought of trying to generate data on whether the treatments are effective and which are the most potent.

Dr. David Heymann, a former WHO assistant director-general, and now a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is on an expert committee that advises Salama’s emergency response center.

“The committee recommended that there be no research until outbreak containment was underway — and well underway,” Heymann said Wednesday. Unlicensed drugs can only be used in studies, or in a “compassionate use” setting; the latter will be the approach here.

Likewise, the protocol that would normally be used to determine who should be offered Merck’s experimental Ebola vaccine may have to be modified in some locations. Until the vaccine is fully licensed, the WHO has been advised to use it employing a system known as ring vaccination — find out who has been in contact with a confirmed Ebola case and vaccinate them and all their contacts.

In the current outbreak, vaccination teams may not have the time to conduct the interviews that would be needed to trace all contacts and the contacts of contacts, Salama said.

“If, for example, we find that we can only visit a small village that’s in a red zone area, and it has 200 people, and we can only go once and we’ve only got a couple of hours because of security, then my instruction to the team will be: Go in and vaccine the 200 people because we don’t have the time, security wise, to do detailed contact tracing of that small village,” he said.

Dr. Daniel Bausch, a longtime Ebola responder who is director of the U.K. Public Health Rapid Support Team at Public Health England, recalled taking part in the response to a Marburg virus outbreak — Marburg is from the same family of viruses as Ebola — in northeastern Congo in the late 1990s, when the WHO had to negotiate with armed groups to operate.
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It wasn’t easy, but it was successful, Bausch said, while acknowledging this time will be tougher.





“It’s not the first one that has happened in an area of insecurity, but it’s potentially at least more disseminated an area of insecurity. And a very, very complex area,” Bausch said, pointing to the refugee population. “I do think it is a little bit of uncharted waters.”

Bausch’s team has sent one person to take part in a WHO-led rapid assessment group that is in North Kivu now. From the outset the WHO has said it will have to limit the number of responders it deploys, because of the strain it will place on the U.N. peacekeepers to safeguard their security.

And rather than setting up multiple response outposts, the workers will likely have to cluster in the town of Beni, where they can safely function, using it to make “in and out’’ forays to other, less secure places.

“We don’t want to have people based anywhere to the east, not far to the north, and not beyond 30 kilometers” — roughly 19 miles — “really to the south,” Salama said. “And you’ve got a kind of circle of a 20- to 30-kilometer radius to the west and north which is reasonably secure. And you’ve got very little room to move on the east, in terms of secure zones.”

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[almost ready]

Looks like they hit the trifecta this time. Outbreaks in multiple large cities , international borders and a million displaced people due to conflicts.

Terrible news. Next will be the people leaving the area to avoid exposure.

 

[night driver]

aesop's current take:

https://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2018/08/keep-occasional-eye-on-this-one.html


Keep An Occasional Eye On This One...




We gave little notice to the last Ebola outbreak, which proved to be justified, because it was dealt with rather swiftly, and largely contained rather quickly.

But days after that outbreak was contained, another one (and not the same one) has cropped up in a section of Congo that's a double-whammy:
Highly populated, and so war-torn dangerous there is minimal ability for anyone to get a handle on containing the virus.

Imagine trying to fight a gasoline fire in Detroit.
During a (Some) Black Lives Matter riot.

(EBOLAVILLE) The latest Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is shaping up to be the most dangerous and difficult test of the world’s ability to contain the disease since the catastrophic West African outbreak in 2014 and 2015.
Like an outbreak earlier this year, in the western part of the country, cases have been reported across multiple locations, disease transmission is taking place in cities where hundreds of thousands of people live, and there’s the potential for the virus to spread across several international borders.
But this outbreak is occurring in a part of the Congo that has long been a conflict zone, with over 1 million displaced people, scores of armed combatant groups, and “red zones” where outsiders hoping to contain a deadly disease may not be able to travel.
The outbreak was declared in North Kivu on Aug. 1, a week after the previous epidemic was deemed contained. Genetic analysis of viruses from the two show that while they are caused by the same species of ebola viruses, Ebola Zaire, they are not linked.
Two weeks into this outbreak, the toll has already surpassed that of the earlier epidemic, which was centered around Bikoro, near DRC’s western border. There were 54 cases and 33 deaths over roughly four months in the Bikoro outbreak. As of Tuesday, there were 73 confirmed and probable cases and 43 deaths in North Kivu, and the case count is rising steadily.
North Kivu is in northeastern Congo, near the border with Uganda and Rwanda. It’s the country’s most populous province, with 8 million people. It is also its most dangerous.
Under a scoring system used by the U.N. to determine the level of risk for its personnel in conflict zones, North Kivu is at level 4. Level 5 means the U.N. must evacuate; it is simply too perilous to be present.
Remember two things:
1) 34 doublings to go from nobody to everybody. (This one is now between 6 and 7.)
That's Epidemic Math.

2) In fifteen days, this outbreak has surpassed what the last one did in four months.
Which underlines:
a) virulence
b) transmissibility in this region
c) difficulty of doing what's necessary to halt the spread

It's still small potatoes, but moving roughly eight times faster than the last outbreak means it bears some scrutiny.

If it gets to a population center/starts hurdling international borders, we're off to the races again like it's 2014.

The only saving grace is that this time around we don't have an illegal alien Muslim idiot riding shotgun on the anti-apocalypse circus.

Panic is never a good idea.
Calm, rational forethought is always a good idea.
Act accordingly.
Think happy thoughts, and hopefully MSF/WHO manage to corral this before gets away from them, and it turns into another wildfire sh*tshow.

Dealing with a biblically epic pandemic may very well be the last thing on your preparedness things-to-do, for good and prudent reasons.
But it should still be on the list.

I'll be happy not to have to do another round of coverage of the Insane Clown Posse.
POSTED BY AESOP AT 3:14 PM
LABELS: EBOLA
3 COMMENTS:
Anonymous said...
Napalm works.

AUGUST 16, 2018 AT 3:20 PM
Aesop said...
Tell that to the people of Dallas.

Also, you don't have enough for an entire continent.

AUGUST 16, 2018 AT 4:35 PM
JJ said...
As a resident of DFW area I’d rather have common sense restrictions on traveling from Ebola stricken areas than to be napalmed!

Unfortunately I can see how this is going to play out. The President issues Constitutional executive orders, the progressive socialists and the globalists from both parties goes bonkers yet again, an Obummer appointed federal judge issues an injunction preventing the lawful orders from being enforced and then we start dealing with Ebola cases in the US again.

We’re probably no better prepared for an outbreak this time as we were in 2014.

AUGUST 16, 2018 AT 5:41 PM

 

[Doomer Doug]

You left one thing out: Obama appointed judge issues restraining order, EBOLA breaks out in CONUS, hundreds/thousands start to die. Judge is then executed. I understand the judge that gave the Muslim terrorists low bail is now under protection and is getting death threats. The system will hold together until people start to die from the stupid liberals. Once that happens, it is game over.

 

[Milk-maid]

You left one thing out: Obama appointed judge issues restraining order, EBOLA breaks out in CONUS, hundreds/thousands start to die. Judge is then executed. I understand the judge that gave the Muslim terrorists low bail is now under protection and is getting death threats. The system will hold together until people start to die from the stupid liberals. Once that happens, it is game over.

The only thing to do after this is send in the troops (to say NY and other entry points into the US) and also arrest any judge who defies a presidential order to block immigrants from these countries. Maybe even arrest mayors and Govs…

 

[Oreally]

ok to worry, but until i see evidence of sustained aerosol transmission, not real close P 2 P contact, Ebola is only an African problem, not a near ELE event.

 

[Garand]

Incubation period of someone infected is 2-21 days, possibly more. I have a feeling we are going to see many more cases.

 

[Doomer Doug]

The one I am still keeping my four eyes on is the Black Death, airborne version of the Plague in Madagascar. You can catch that one from somebody coughing, or sneezing on you.

 

[Doomer Doug]

Ebola is now ramping up to EXPLODE in this area. Get ready!


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ly-Ebola-virus-Democratic-Republic-Congo.html

At least 1,500 people may have been exposed to deadly Ebola virus in the Congo, says WHO, as it warns situation could deteriorate as aid workers are unable to reach 'no-go' areas

Ebola has hit Congo, in central Africa, hard in recent weeks, particularly in the eastern region of Beni
The World Health Organization said at least 1,500 people had potentially been exposed to the virus
So far, 44 people have died after falling ill and 78 people have been confirmed as infected
Doctors are isolating victims in secure units made by the Alliance for International Medical Action
They are being used for the first time in an effort to stem the outbreak in an area also ravaged by war

By Afp

Published: 07:38 EDT, 17 August 2018 | Updated: 13:19 EDT, 17 August 2018

The World Health Organization said on Friday that at least 1,500 people had potentially been exposed to the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu region, where fear of local militia is preventing aid workers from reaching some areas.

But it expected more people to become infected and could not be sure that it had identified all chains by which the virus is spreading in the eastern part of the country beset by militia violence.

The region is haunted in particular by the Allied Defence Forces, a Ugandan Islamist rebel group blamed for hundreds of civilian deaths over the past four years.

 

[Doomer Doug]

Um, the number of people possibly infected has gone up by 500 in the last 72 hours.

the link is here.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2...-49-2000-people-feared-contacts/#.W3r-7cInbm6

War-ripped Congo’s Ebola death toll reaches 49 with 2,000 people feared to be ‘contacts’ IF TRUE, THIS MEANS A KIA RATE OF NEARLY 50 PERCENT, 45 OUT OF 90, AND A POSSIBLE INFECTION RATE OF OVER 600 A WEEK, 2000 IN 20 DAYS OR 100 PER DAY!!!!! THE ENTIRE TOTAL FOR THE "OTHER EBOLA OUTBREAK" WAS 43 DEAD IN FOUR MONTHS, AND WE NOW HAVE 45 DEAD IN THREE WEEKS. NUFF SAID

AFP-JIJI

Aug 20, 2018



KINSHASA – The deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo has now claimed 49 lives since the start of the month, the government has said, and the World Health Organization expects more cases.

The gradually increasing death toll, with a further 2,000 people feared to have come into contact with the virus, adds to the woes of a country already facing violence, displacement and political uncertainty.

First reported on Aug. 1 in the North Kivu province, the current outbreak has killed 49 of the 90 cases reported, according to the latest health ministry bulletin on Saturday.

It said of the 49 deaths from the hemorrhagic fever, 63 were confirmed and 27 were probable. Confirmed cases are verified through laboratory tests on samples taken from patients. The cases treated as “probable” often concern sick people with a close epidemiological link to confirmed cases, but who have not been tested.

Most deaths — 39 — were recorded in the agricultural village of Mangina 30 km (some 20 miles) southwest of the city of Beni. Three deaths occurred in the neighbouring province of Ituri.

Field teams also identified 2,157 “contacts” — people who may have been in contact with the virus — according to the health ministry.

WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told reporters on Friday from the U.N. agency’s Geneva headquarters that it “expects more cases.

“We do not know if all the chains of transmission have been identified,” he added.

The outbreak is the 10th to strike the DRC since 1976, when Ebola was first identified and named after a river in the north of the country.

Ebola has long been considered incurable, though swift isolation and the rapid treatment of symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration has helped some patients to survive.

The quest for a vaccine grew increasingly urgent during an Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,300 people in the West African states of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in 2013-15.

 

[Faroe]

Seems like:
Ten people reported dead, and a hundred million $ gets injected into the local economy.
I've grown cynical about the whole thing.

 

[canis-major]

If they would just stop licking monkeys.

 

[Milk-maid]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-ebola-in-dreaded-scenario-who-idUSKCN1L90VC

Doctor in Congo has come down with Ebola!

GENEVA (Reuters) - A doctor has become the first probable Ebola case in one of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s “high insecurity zones” which are dogged by militia violence and hard to access, a scenario “we have all been dreading”, the WHO said on Friday.

Since the outbreak erupted on Aug. 1, 103 confirmed and probable cases of Ebola have been identified in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, including 63 deaths, the health ministry said in an overnight update.

The doctor living in Oicha town in North Kivu has been re-hospitalised with Ebola symptoms after his wife was confirmed as having the disease when she traveled to the nearby city of Beni, Dr. Peter Salama, the World Health Organization’s head of emergency operations, said.

Oicha is almost entirely surrounded by ADF Ugandan Islamist militia, there are “extremely serious security concerns”, he said. Aid workers, priests and government officials are held hostage in the area, he said.

The doctor’s initial test for Ebola - which causes vomiting, fever and diarrhoea - had been negative, but fresh results are awaited, Salama told Reuters.

So far 97 of the doctor’s contacts who may have been exposed to the virus have been identified, and vaccination has begun in the town, he added.

“So for the first time really we have a confirmed case and contacts in an area of very high insecurity. It really was the problem we were anticipating and the problem at same time that we were dreading,” Salama told a news briefing.

More at link

 

[Oreally]

i wonder if africans in this area practice the same body washing rituals as do those in liberia and sierra leone?

 

[Doomer Doug]

EBOLA RAMPING UP FOR REGIONAL EPIDEMIC

I'm not sure if the 63 KIA includes the 40 plus who died in the first outbreak that was declared over about the same time this one started. At any rate, on August 20th "they" said 49 people had died from Ebola. FOUR DAYS LATER, ON THE 24TH, THEY SAID ANOTHER 14 HAD DIED, PLUS A DOCTOR. Further, "they" have now said they are unable to get into that particular city because they will get KILLED by the Muslim terrorists that control it.

Well, ISIS is likely sending in people to try and get Ebola for use in terror attacks.

Oh yeah, in 24 days we now have more dead and infected than we did in the first outbreak that lasted four months.

DOOM PORN!!!!!

 

[Coco82919]

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ebola-outbreak-now-at-105-cases-and-bordering-13181274.php

Ebola outbreak now at 105 cases, and bordering countries are on alert

Lena Sun and Lenny Bernstein, The Washington Post
Published 4:16 pm PDT, Friday, August 24, 2018

MPONDWE, Uganda - On Tuesdays and Fridays, an estimated 19,000 people stream down the hill from Congo's North Kivu province to cross the border into this small town, many of them headed to a sprawling open-air market.

In recent weeks, crossing the border has become more difficult as Ugandan health authorities have beefed up precautions against the spread of the Ebola virus. An outbreak centered in North Kivu is responsible for 105 confirmed or suspected cases, including 67 deaths, according to Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who has just returned from the area.

Uganda is determined to keep the deadly hemorrhagic fever from spreading to its side of the border. Before travelers are allowed through, they must step in small tubs of chlorinated water to disinfect their shoes, and their temperatures are taken with no-touch thermometer guns aimed at their temples.

Uganda moved quickly, imposing the precautions a week after the latest outbreak was declared Aug. 1. It has found six suspected cases at this crossing, but laboratory tests cleared them all.

A World Health Organization team arrived on Thursday in the northeast Democratic Republic of Congo to coordinate the response to a new Ebola outbreak. It is a region that has seen large movements of displaced people in the civil war. In a euronews exclusive the WHO's Deputy Director-General of Emergency Preparedness and Response said he is concerned about security: "It is an active conflict zone, so we will be doing public health operations really across the frontline in order to stop this outbreak," said Dr. Peter Salama. " The other factor that is concerning us is, of course, it is very close to borders, in this case, particularly the border with Uganda" Last month the country declared the end of another outbreak in Equateur province, some 2,500 km away. On the positive side, that experience can help contain the spread of the epidemic throughout the region. "Any of the surrounding countries did put a lot of preparedness processes and supplies, and personnel in place," said Dr. Salama, "so they are, certainly, much better prepared than in the past". Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with the blood and body fluids and results in sudden, high fever. It's deadly if not treated, with a mortality rate of 90 percent.
Media: Euronews

"So far, we have not gotten any case of Ebola," Ithungu Honorata, a nurse who oversees the screening effort, said Friday. "But we don't want it to come to Uganda."

The latest Ebola outbreak, Congo's tenth, was declared just a week after a smaller one was quelled in another part of the country. It comes four years after the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea killed more than 11,000 people, sickened more than 28,000 and sparked panic about travel in other parts of the world, including the United States.


The current outbreak is still escalating, according to Redfield and workers at nongovernmental organizations that have rushed in to treat victims and interrupt the spread of the disease.

"Really, in two weeks, we've gone from 24 cases to 105 cases," Redfield said, mainly because many health workers at a hospital in the town of Mangina, where the outbreak began, became infected when they treated early patients without recognizing that they had Ebola and therefore did not take adequate precautions. The disease spreads through contact with the bodily fluids of victims, putting health workers and patients' family members at greatest risk.

"In the next couple of weeks, we'll have greater clarity" about the scope of the problem, Redfield said.





"The scary thing is that we are above 100 cases already," said Michelle Gayer, director of emergency health for the International Rescue Committee, a nonprofit organization that is helping in the region. But she said it will be another week before health authorities can begin to assess fully how bad the outbreak may become.

"Everyone is concerned, rightfully so, that there are still cases coming," said Karin Huster, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, who is in Beni, a city in the affected area of Congo.

Several factors make this outbreak challenging. Years of conflict between militias and the government have put large numbers of people on the move and weakened the region's health infrastructure. The instability also makes it difficult to travel to outlying areas where cases have been discovered, such as Oicha, without military protection.

But unlike four years ago, when Ebola tore through a portion of West Africa, authorities now have a vaccine and several experimental treatments that were developed in the interval. Redfield said that nearly 3,000 people have been vaccinated, with 400 to 600 more receiving the vaccine each day. About a dozen confirmed cases have been treated with two experimental therapies, including one developed at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. All of the treated patients are alive, he said.

The most successful way to halt an outbreak of this kind is to track down all the contacts of everyone infected with the virus and test them for exposure. Those people are isolated and treated if they are infected and vaccinated if they are not. The contacts of those contacts must be found and assessed as well in a process known as "ring vaccination."

Four years ago, the World Health Organization and the United States were accused of moving too slowly to intervene in the West African epidemic. This time, both have moved quickly into the area. And Doctors Without Borders opened a 70-bed treatment center in Mangina on Aug. 14, while the Alliance for International Medical Action has a 40-bed center in nearby Beni. A third is being built, Redfield said.

So far, Redfield said, it is not necessary to test travelers at U.S. ports of entry, in part because there are no direct flights to the United States from the affected region and screening of outgoing travelers is being conducted. Four years ago, debate raged about whether to cut off all travel from West Africa to the United States. President Donald Trump, then a private citizen, was an outspoken advocate of that position, tweeting that the United States should not allow two infected American missionaries back into the country for treatment.

Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol were admitted to U.S. hospitals and survived after receiving intensive care.

At the Congo-Uganda border crossing, Alphosine Kahindo, 47, was on her way to the market, a 12-hour trip on foot from her home in Kisima, to buy fish and soap and to sell a milky-white alcoholic drink made from fermented corn. She said that her uncle is sick and that her brother died in the current outbreak. She did not attend his funeral, she said, because of the fear of infection.

"I was longing to go, but I couldn't," she said.

At the market, vendors are also aware of the outbreak. Malik Meredith, 45, was selling piles of plump baby eggplant. "No one is sick here," she said. "But we are fearing it."

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Bernstein reported from Washington.

 

[Doomer Doug]

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...e-21-four-days-bordering-countries-high-alert

Yes, Ebola is starting gain intensity. Did you see the article where Thomas Freidman, the head of the CDC under Obama was just busted for CHILD ABUSE??? The CDC head after him resigned due to corruption I think. We are led by scum.


Ebola Deaths In DRC Spike 21% In Four Days, Bordering Countries On High Alert
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by Tyler Durden
Sat, 08/25/2018 - 20:45

The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DNC) has claimed 67 lives, up from 55, according to Robert Redfield, director of the CDC. On Friday the WHO said that the virus has spread to an area of "high security risk," and that ongoing local conflicts have made finding and monitoring infected people extremely difficult.



"Really, in two weeks, we’ve gone from 24 cases to 105 cases," said Redfield, who just returned from the hot zone where an outbreak centered in North Kivu is responsible for 105 confirmed or suspected cases, according to the Washington Post. There are currently 77 confirmed cases, 28 probable cases in which biological samples are not available for laboratory testing, while 3,000 people have received an experimental Ebola vaccine.

 

[Coco82919]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/health-officials-worried-about-containing-latest-ebola-outbreak-1535290631

Health Officials Worried About Containing Latest Ebola Outbreak

International health officials worry about containing the virus in an area dense with armed militias and close to the porous border with Uganda.

By Nicholas Bariyo and
Betsy McKay
Aug. 26, 2018 9:37 a.m. ET

The world has never been so prepared for an Ebola outbreak, but the latest emergence of the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s conflict-ridden east is proving the most dangerous in years.


Seventy-two out of 111 patients who have been infected with the hemorrhagic fever have died, making this outbreak the deadliest in more than a decade in Congo, where the disease was first diagnosed in 1976 and named after the nearby Ebola River.

While the current death toll is far off the 11,300 people who perished when Ebola spread through West Africa from 2014 to 2016, international health officials worry about containing the virus in an area dense with armed militias and close to the porous border with Uganda.

“This outbreak is still in the escalation phase,” said Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has staff working to stem the outbreak in Congo, neighboring countries and the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization. “The key is identifying (patients’) contacts and getting people vaccinated.”

Since 2014, international health groups, governments and pharmaceutical companies have raced to strengthen their defenses against Ebola. Congo has approved the use of an experimental vaccine made by U.S.-based Merck & Co., which helped snuff out an outbreak in northwestern Congo last month. It has also cleared five experimental treatments meant to reduce the mortality of the virus, which on average kills half of those infected.

Two of the first 10 patients who received a medication which contains an antibody isolated from a survivor of an Ebola outbreak in 1995 have recovered, Congo’s health ministry said Saturday. The eight others remain in treatment.

In a region that has seen a spike in violence, including beheadings, in recent months, health workers have struggled to reach patients and implement safe-burial protocols that proved key to controlling recent outbreaks. Ebola, which causes fever, diarrhea, vomiting and internal bleeding, is passed on through bodily fluids, including from corpses.

On Friday, the WHO said a doctor in the town of Oicha in Ituri province had become ill with Ebola and may have infected his wife. The cases are the first in “an area of high insecurity,” said Peter Salama, the WHO’s emergency response chief. “It really was the problem we were anticipating, and the problem at the same time that we were dreading,” he said.

Officials have identified 97 people in the town who may have been exposed and need to be vaccinated, but haven’t been able to reach them all due to security concerns, Dr. Salama said.

While Oicha itself isn’t under rebel control, it is surrounded almost entirely by territory controlled by the Allied Democratic Forces, Uganda’s Islamic dissidents that are one of the dozens of foreign and local armed groups operating in Congo’s gold and tin mining heartlands.

Large numbers of civilians have been killed around Oicha and aid workers, priests and government officials are being held hostage, Dr. Salama said. Health teams from the U.N. and Congo’s government managed to reach the town accompanied by military escorts, but staff from nongovernmental groups have been locked out.

Dr. Salama said the WHO expects at least one more wave of cases. “We are truly at the crossroads,” he said.

Officials are concerned that the outbreak in Ituri and North Kivu provinces could spill into neighboring countries, including Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan. The Ugandan government has enhanced health screening at border crossings, where thousands of people transit daily. “It’s very probable that cases will cross the border into Uganda, but it’s also probable that they will be diagnosed rapidly,” said Dr. Redfield, who traveled to eastern Congo earlier this month.

The 1.3 million people, including thousands of refugees, who live in the region have endured violent insurgencies dating back to the 1990s. But it is their first time experiencing an Ebola outbreak, stunning a rural population where many believe the virus is sent by evil spirits, aid officials say.

“Many can’t comprehend the idea of not being able to bury dead loved ones according to tradition,” said Hassan Coulibaly, a field director in eastern Congo for the International Rescue Committee. “We are trying to educate them, but the environment is hostile”

Last week, locals angered by health officials’ insisting they forego traditional burial practices, including washing bodies to avoid infection, burned down a health center in Mangina, the epicenter of the outbreak, pushing out medical personnel, according to the WHO. A local team administering vaccinations was also beaten up in Manbangu village, some 10 kilometers west of Mangina, while the IRC was forced to close down its health facility in the village of Mabalako following an attack from locals.

The threat of militias has prompted Kinshasa to deploy more troops to protect health officials, said Congo’s Information Minister Lambert Mende.

“The state of insecurity means we are dealing with a whole new experience,” said Gwenola Seroux, head of emergency teams at medical charity Doctors Without Borders. “We would like to keep in close contact with all the affected people, but the prevailing security situation dictates otherwise.”

Write to Nicholas Bariyo at nicholas.bariyo@wsj.com and Betsy McKay at betsy.mckay@wsj.com

 

[Millwright]

In Dreaded Scenario, Ebola Spreads to Densely Populated War Zone in Congo

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com

In dreaded scenario, Ebola spreads to densely populated war zone in Congo
The dreaded tribal war zone scenario

Dr. Peter Salama, from the World Health Organization (WHO), said on Friday:

For the first time really we have a confirmed case and contacts in an area of very high insecurity. It really was the problem we were anticipating and the problem at same time that we were dreading.

The reason for the statement of concern is that several simultaneous conditions in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have given rise to a situation where an explosion of new infections is likely, in a densely populated tribal war zone.

The new outbreak of Ebola was identified on August 1, just one week after the previous outbreak of Ebola officially ended on July 24.

The earlier outbreak had occurred in far western DRC province of Equateur, centered on a port city on the Congo River. Applying lessons learned from the huge Ebola pandemic of 2014-16 in West Africa, the WHO moved very quickly contain and eliminate that outbreak. WHO medical personnel barely had time to relax when they received word of the new outbreak in the far eastern provinces of North Kivu and Ituri. Both the previous and current outbreaks were caused by the “Zaire strain” of the Ebola virus. However, scientific evidence shows the two outbreaks are unrelated. This means that the virus has again made a jump from the environment (through bats or animals) to people. Daily Mail and BBC and AFP
The dreaded tribal war zone scenario

The earlier outbreak occurred in one large city, but mostly in small villages, where doctors could easily and aggressive use “contact tracing” to prevent the virus from spreading. When an Ebola patient is identified, then all that person’s contacts and contacts of contacts are tracked down and are warned to remain indoors for an incubation period of 21 days. A newly developed vaccine can be given to suspected victims to prevent illness.

So far, 63 people are believed to have died in the outbreak that began on August 1. There are about 103 confirmed and probable cases.

The biggest cause for concern is that one of the confirmed cases is that of an unidentified WHO physician who has been identifying and diagnosing Ebola patients. However, he wasn’t infected by one of his patients. He was infected by his wife when she returned from a nearby city.

The doctor had been in contact with over 100 people in the town of Oicha, about 50 km from DRC’s border with Uganda. About 97 of these people have been identified, and WHO officials have been using contact tracing and vaccinations to stop the spread. The problem is that the spreading could go out of control.

North Kivu province is rich in mineral sources, including gold. In August 2007, DRC government forces attacked civilians in order to obtain these mineral sources, creating an enormous refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing into refugee camps in Uganda. In 2017, the number of refugees has been surging, because of tribal violence between DRC government forces and a rebel coalition known as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).

Currently, the city of Oicha itself is not under ADF control, but the entire region surrounding Oicha is under ADF control, where aid workers, priests, and government officials are being held hostage. North Kivu is the most densely populated province in DRC, so there are many scenarios where the virus could spread explosively — into a region controlled by the AFD, or into a refugee camp in Uganda.

The situation is even further complicated by the fact that the ADF has used violence against US peacekeepers in the region. United Nations officials were stunned in December by the worst attack on United Nations peacekeepers in recent history, when 15 people were killed and 54 wounded in Kivu state, near the border with Rwanda and Uganda. World Health Organization and International SOS

https://www.breitbart.com/national-...reads-to-densely-populated-war-zone-in-congo/

 

[SouthernBreeze]

This is not going to end well.

 

[night driver]

mosey over to Raconteur report to see what the likely results would be.

TL;DR: You are correct.

 

[Coco82919]

http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/405395-ebola-outbreak-in-congo-spreads-to-new-city

Ebola outbreak in Congo spreads to new city


By Reid Wilson - 09/06/18 02:15 PM EDT 60comments

An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in two eastern provinces of Congo has spread to a major international trading hub with almost a million residents, Congolese health officials said Wednesday.



Health officials in Butembo, a city with close links to neighboring Uganda, said they had confirmed that a man who died at Butembo University Hospital had tested positive for the virus.



The Congolese health ministry said the man had contact with an Ebola patient in Beni, a city about 25 miles north of Butembo where almost two dozen Ebola victims have been identified, before fleeing south.



The health ministry said it had prepared the hospital staff to deal with potential Ebola cases. Ndjoloko Tambwe Bathe, who is heading the response for the Congo health ministry, traveled to the city on Wednesday to set up a full response team. The ministry is setting up an Ebola treatment unit, the fifth established in the region since the outbreak began.



The most recent outbreak of the Ebola virus began in July in North Kivu Province, home to about 8 million residents and about a million internally displaced refugees. So far, health officials have identified 129 probable and confirmed cases. Eighty-nine people have died.



Most of those cases have been in the Mabalako health district, where the first cases were reported in late July after a funeral for a woman in the town of Mangina. Several relatives who attended the funeral, who probably washed and dressed the woman’s body to prepare her for the afterlife, later came down with symptoms.



Several probable and confirmed cases have been identified in neighboring Ituri Province, north of North Kivu.



Public health officials had already been worried about the spread of the virus once it reached Beni, a city of about a quarter million residents that also has close trade ties to Uganda. Now that it has reached Butembo, those officials said, their fears have grown.



“Good news is case detected quickly, response already in place & expanding,” Peter Salama, the World Health Organization’s deputy director-general for Emergency Preparedness and Response, wrote on Twitter. “Bad new is increases risk of further spread, and having Ebola in an urban centre makes ending the outbreak much harder.”



In the weeks after the outbreak began, global public health officials and nongovernmental organizations have raced hundreds of epidemiologists and technicians and millions of dollars in relief aid to the region. Those officials had identified at least 4,300 people who had come into contact with someone infected with the Ebola virus, and more than half of those people remain under watch in case they develop symptoms.



Public health officials also worried that the security situation in North Kivu Province would hinder their ability to track down those who had come into contact with Ebola patients. Ethnic violence and attacks from Islamist guerrillas based in Uganda made some of that critical contact-tracing far more difficult.



In an interview last week from Beni, WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said contact tracers were largely confident that they had identified virtually all of those who could potentially become infected.



“The feeling is that we have, in Mangina, the resources. It seems the cases that are coming are coming from the contacts, which is a good sign,” Jasarevic said. He said the WHO teams had been able to access all the villages where Ebola cases might be present.



The Congolese Health Ministry said a vaccination campaign that has been underway for weeks had already reached 6,343 people, including more than 3,000 in Mabalako, almost 2,000 in Beni and more than a thousand in Mandima. Front-line health care workers and those who might come into contact with an Ebola victim get the highest priority for the new vaccine.



This is the second Ebola outbreak this year in which the new vaccine has been deployed. The vaccine, developed during the waning days of an Ebola outbreak in the West African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, was earlier deployed to Equateur Province, a region about 750 miles west of North Kivu.



None of those who received the vaccine in Equateur subsequently fell ill.



Since the Ebola virus was first discovered in 1976, there have been 14 confirmed outbreaks, mostly in Congo — or, as it was then known, Zaire. The outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,300 people, by far the deadliest of any epidemic. The latest outbreak is already the ninth-deadliest of its kind.



Updated: 4:44 p.m.

 

[2Trish]

Deleted since I can't link.

 

[night driver]

2Trish, can I ask the source of the image? I want to link to it and really don't want trillions of hits on TB for it.

 

[2Trish]

Night Driver, I did a cut & paste off Twitter. Give me a few minutes, I should be able to find the source for it.

 

[2Trish]

Night Driver, I got it off of the Twitter account for "MSF International", they list their website on the account. I'm not sure if they are the authors of the photo.

 

[Milk-maid]

The First Urban Case of Ebola in the Congo Is a ‘Game Changer’

The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has thus far been confined to remote rural areas, but one case has now been confirmed in Mbandaka, a city of almost 1.2 million people. “We are moving to a new phase of the epidemic, and we are putting all the means in place to respond to it in a quick and effective way,” said Oly Ilunga, the DRC’s minister of health, on Wednesday evening.

The outbreak initially hit the northwestern town of Bikoro and a nearby village called Ikoko-Impenge that is 30 kilometers away. Both are small and hard to reach, especially in the current rainy season, when roads become pockmarked with gullies and potholes. Mbandaka’s larger population, and its location on the Congo River, provides new opportunities for the virus to spread. And, at around 150 kilometers from Bikoro, it significantly widens the area affected by the outbreak. “Confirmation of urban Ebola in DRC is a game changer,” Peter Salama, from the World Health Organization, tweeted. “The challenge just got much, much tougher.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/...irst-urban-case-of-ebola-is-confirmed/560651/