EBOLA New Ebola outbreak declared in Democratic Republic of the Congo

[Blacknarwhal]

Oh hello, Ebola...fancy seeing you back again.

Fair use cited so on and so forth.

http://www.who.int/news-room/detail...-declared-in-democratic-republic-of-the-congo



New Ebola outbreak declared in Democratic Republic of the Congo
8 May 2018 News Release
Geneva/Brazzaville/Kinshasa


The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Bikoro in Equateur Province today (8 May). The outbreak declaration occurred after laboratory results confirmed two cases of EVD.

The Ministry of Health of Democratic of the Congo (DRC) informed WHO that two out of five samples collected from five patients tested positive for EVD at the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB) in Kinshasa. More specimens are being collected for testing.

WHO is working closely with the Government of the DRC to rapidly scale up its operations and mobilize health partners using the model of a successful response to a similar EVD outbreak in 2017.

“Our top priority is to get to Bikoro to work alongside the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and partners to reduce the loss of life and suffering related to this new Ebola virus disease outbreak,” said Dr Peter Salama, WHO Deputy Director-General, Emergency Preparedness and Response. “Working with partners and responding early and in a coordinated way will be vital to containing this deadly disease.”

The first multidisciplinary team comprised of experts from WHO, Médecins Sans Frontières and Provincial Division of Health travelled today to Bikoro to strengthen coordination and investigations.

Bikoro is situated in Equateur Province on the shores of Lake Tumba in the north-western part of the country near the Republic of the Congo. All cases were reported from iIkoko Iponge health facility located about 30 kilometres from Bikoro. Health facilities in Bikoro have very limited functionality, and rely on international organizations to provide supplies that frequently stock out.

“We know that addressing this outbreak will require a comprehensive and coordinated response. WHO will work closely with health authorities and partners to support the national response. We will gather more samples, conduct contact tracing, engage the communities with messages on prevention and control, and put in place methods for improving data collection and sharing,” said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO Regional Director for Africa.

This is DRC’s ninth outbreak of EVD since the discovery of the virus in the country in 1976. In the past five weeks, there have been 21 suspected viral haemorrhagic fever in and around the iIkoko Iponge, including 17 deaths.

“WHO is closely working with other partners, including Médecins Sans Frontières, to ensure a strong, response to support the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to prevent and control the spreading of the disease from the epicentre of iIkoko Iponge Health Zone to save lives," said Dr Allarangar Yokouide, WHO Representative in the DRC.

Upon learning about the laboratory results today, WHO set up its Incident Management System to fully dedicate staff and resources across the organization to the response. WHO plans to deploy epidemiologists, logisticians, clinicians, infection prevention and control experts, risk communications experts and vaccination support teams in the coming days. WHO will also be determining supply needs and help fill gaps, such as for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). WHO has also alerted neighbouring countries.

WHO released US$ 1 million from its Contingency Fund for Emergencies to support response activities for the next three months with the goal of stopping the spread of Ebola to surrounding provinces and countries.

Ebola is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The last Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo occurred in 2017 in Likati Health Zone, Bas Uele Province, in the northern part of the country and was quickly contained thanks to joint efforts by the Government of DRC, WHO and many different partners.

An effective response to the 2017 EVD outbreak was achieved through the timely alert by local authorities of suspect cases, immediate testing of blood samples due to strengthened national laboratory capacity, the early announcement of the outbreak by the government, rapid response activities by local and national health authorities with the robust support of international partners, and speedy access to flexible funding.

Coordination support on the ground by WHO was critical and an Incident Management System was set up within 24 hours of the outbreak being announced. WHO deployed more than 50 experts to work closely with government and partners.

The Ebola virus causes an acute, serious illness which is often fatal if untreated. The average EVD case fatality rate is around 50%. The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission.

 

[brokenwings]

I sure hope Trump will stand up and stop all flights and people coming in from those countries where there is Ebola. That's what I would do. They need to be quarantined.

 

[SmithJ]

I sure hope Trump will stand up and stop all flights and people coming in from those countries where there is Ebola. That's what I would do. They need to be quarantined.

If he did, a federal judge in Hawaii would overrule him!

 

[Millwright]

Ebola

Volcanoes

Mid East war

We gotsum doom goin' on.

 

[33dInd]

well,
I wonder when the drum roll from the democraps starts to being them all here

 

[Blacknarwhal]

If he did, a federal judge in Hawaii would overrule him!

If you can find one who hasn't evacuated....

 

[Bones]

Those Congoleums best stop messin with dead monkies....in every way currently accepted by that culture.

 

[changed]

Ebola

Volcanoes

Mid East war

We gotsum doom goin' on.

Don't forget the 70th birthday anniversary of Israel coming up soon. A generation? Instead of bringing infected doctors and nurses to the mainland US for treatment, next time let's fly them to Guantanamo Bay.

 

[Wise Owl]

Those Congoleums best stop messin with dead monkies....in every way currently accepted by that culture.

You beat me to it.

Stop eating monkeys and also the fruit bats. They both carry the ebola.

 

[Dennis Olson]

Good. F'em.

 

[Publius]

If this happened in a large town or city within 72 hours they could have a major outbrake on their hands.

 

[Profit of Doom]

Never mind Ebola.
Where’s my Black Death?

 

[Millwright]

Never mind Ebola.
Where’s my Black Death?

Wakanda?

 

[Doomer Doug]

Ebola is rather difficult to catch, since you need contact with bodily fluids. Most of the cases in West Africa came from the practice of washing the corpses, or being exposed to blood or saliva.

Madagascar is going to have another airborne version of the plague season start later this year, in August I think. The airborne version of the Black Death is much more of a threat to us than Ebola. The bottom line with Ebola, as shown by the infected person in Houston in the apartment with several other people, who didn't become infected, is casual infection is difficult, not impossible, but difficult.

We are going to end up with a pandemic, since the globalist whore Bill Gates wants one. When Bill and Melinda warn about a global pandemic, it means "they" are planning one. After all, you need a pandemic to fulfill Deagles 2025 population loss for the US of some 200 million people.

Global travel. Mutating virus and bacteria. Illegal immigration. Pandemic. check.

 

[Doomer Doug]

1st Ebola death confrimed in Congo

And so it begins.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/5-suspected-ebola-cases-reported-congos-northwest-134448958.html

Congo announces 1st confirmed death from Ebola outbreak
[Associated Press]
Associated Press•May 10, 2018

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- Congo's minister of health says the first death from a new outbreak of Ebola in the country's northwest has been confirmed along with 11 other cases of people sickened by the virus.

Health Minister Oly Ilunga said seven people with the hemorrhagic fever were hospitalized in Bikoro as of Thursday. He says four new cases and one death also have been reported in the town of Ikoko Impenge. He says three nurses are among those infected.

Ilunga says 17 deaths that drew the attention of health officials over the weekend to the region had not yet been confirmed as resulting from Ebola. He says the situation calls for an immediate and energetic response.

The World Health Organization and officials from other international health groups are in the area to help contain the spread of the deadly virus.

 

[20Gauge]

Those Congoleums best stop messin with dead monkies....in every way currently accepted by that culture.

and some that they may not accept.

 

[bev]

From the OP...

"WHO is working closely with the Government of the DRC to rapidly scale up its operations and mobilize health partners using the model of a successful response to a similar EVD outbreak in 2017."

2017? I'm thinking 2013-14.

 

[FarmerJohn]

Never mind Ebola.
Where’s my Black Death?

Endemic in armadillos and gophers in the south, southwest and west. There's always a good chance of a breakout.

 

[OldCraftsman]

Never mind Ebola.
Where’s my Black Death?

Chicago?

 

[Millwright]

Health workers strike threatens Ebola response in Nigeria

Nigerian health workers’ unions on Friday threatened to withhold help for emergency measures against Ebola because of an ongoing strike over pay and conditions.

“The strike will go on as long as the government refuses to honour the existing agreement with us,” chairman of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU), Biobelemoye Joy Josiah, told AFP.

The government this week ordered screening of travellers from the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring countries after a fresh outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever there.

But Josiah said: “None of our members will be involved in any Ebola screening until the government does the needful.”

JOHESU comprises pharmacists, nurses, laboratory technologists and other paramedics in the public health sector, except doctors and dentists.

They walked out on April 18 over demands for pay parity with doctors and improved welfare.

The strike has paralysed services in federal government-owned hospitals and health centres.

On Wednesday, JOHESU extended the strike by directing its affiliates in Nigeria’s 36 states to join following deadlock in talks with government.

Nigeria does not share a border with DR Congo but memories are still fresh of an Ebola outbreak in 2014 that killed seven people out of 19 confirmed cases.

The World Health Organization at the time praised the country’s response for containing the spread of the virus, which left some 11,000 people dead in wider West Africa.

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) said relevant agencies, including the port health services, have been mobilised to ensure the safety of passengers and other users.

“All equipment and personnel used in combatting the virus in 2014 are still very much at the airports,” said FAAN spokeswoman Henrietta Yakubu.

“We have always had thermal scanners in our airports that monitor temperature of passengers and capture their pictures. We still have hand sanitisers in our restrooms too.

“When passengers walk pass the scanners, it registers their temperature. If yours is high, you are pulled aside for observation.”

http://www.breitbart.com/news/health-workers-strike-threatens-ebola-response-in-nigeria/

 

[vestige]

We still have hand sanitisers in our restrooms too.

Impressive ^^^

 

[Doomer Doug]

It's worse than they are saying

Watch what they do, and not what they say.

the link is here

http://www.oann.com/who-prepares-for-worst-case-scenario-in-congo-ebola-outbreak/


WHO Prepares for ‘Worst Case Scenario’ in Congo Ebola Outbreak

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 10:02 AM PT — Fri. May 11, 2018

World Health Organization officials are shipping Ebola vaccines as quick as possible in response to the latest wave in Central Africa.

On Friday, the organization said it is preparing for the “worst case scenario” in the new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

They added there’s no specific treatment for the deadly virus, but a new experimental vaccine has been shown to be highly effective.



On Thursday, the country’s health minister announced the first death since the outbreak was declared earlier this week.

The ministry added, two cases have also been confirmed and nine others are suspected to be from the Ebola virus.

The CDC says health care providers caring for Ebola patients are at the highest risk.

“We have three health care workers infected and one who have been reported as of yesterday as having died, and we know that health care workers can really be an amplification factor for these kinds of outbreaks,” said Peter Salama, Director General of WHO Emergency Preparedness.”We know the number of suspected probable and confirmed cases is significant, so we are very concerned and we are planning for all scenarios, including the worst case scenario.”

The ministry says the World Health Organization has developed a plan to respond to he outbreak over the next three months.

 

[Doomer Doug]

Here is another article.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/preparing-worst-dr-congo-ebola-outbreak-111247493.html

Geneva (AFP) - The World Health Organization said Friday it was preparing for "the worst case scenario" in a fresh outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

"We are very concerned, and we are planning for all scenarios, including the worst case scenario," the WHO's head of emergency response Peter Salama told reporters in Geneva.

The WHO has tallied 32 suspected or confirmed cases in the northwestern area of Bikoro, on the shores of Lake Tumbathe near the border with the Republic of Congo, including 18 deaths, between April 4 and May 9.

The cases include three healthcare workers, including one who has died, Salama said.

The outbreak, declared by the DRC health ministry on Tuesday, is the DRC's ninth known outbreak of Ebola since 1976, when the deady viral disease was first identified in then-Zaire by a Belgian-led team.

Salama said the affected region of the vast strife-torn central African country is very remote and hard to reach, with a dire lack of functioning infrastructure.

"Access is extremely difficult... It is basically 15 hours by motorbike from the closest town," he said.

WHO already has a team on the ground and is preparing to send up to 40 more specialists in epidemiology, logistics, contact tracing and other areas to the region in the coming week or so.

Salama also said the UN health organisation hoped to have a mobile lab up and running on site this weekend.

At the same time, WHO and the World Food Programme are working to set up an "air-bridge" to help bring in the supplies needed, he said, adding though that only helicopters could be used until an airfield could be cleared to allow larger planes to land.

The response "is going to be extremely challenging, and very costly," he said.

The WHO is also awaiting a green light from DRC authorities to begin a vaccination campaign in the area, using an available stockpile of an experimental vaccine, he said.

As for the risk, Salama said WHO was especially concerned about the near-term spread of the disease, including to Mbandaka, the capital of Equateur province, which has around one million inhabitants and is only a few hours away from Bikoro.

"If we see a town of that size infected with Ebola, then we are going to have a major urban outbreak," he warned.

In addition, he said that the surrounding nine countries had been put on "high alert". The WHO was especially concerned about the possible spread to neighbouring Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic, which has connections to the affected area through the river systems.

He stressed however that the possibility of international spread of the disease was still considered "low", but said the situation was constantly being evaluated.

 

[NCGirl]

"Access is extremely difficult... It is basically 15 hours by motorbike from the closest town," he said.

15 hour motorbike ride from the closest town - Just WoW - that is one crazy far out in the boonies super hard to get to kinda of a place. Can only imagine what a sore bum I would have after that ride.

 

[Housecarl]

For links see article source.....
Posted for fair use.....
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...a-outbreak/ar-AAx88Na?ocid=spartandhp&ffid=gz


A pioneering vaccine is being sent to Congo in hopes of containing a new Ebola outbreak

Siobhán O'Grady 9 hrs ago

Video by Newsy

When the Ebola virus swept through West Africa in 2014, it hit capital cities so quickly that medical professionals were left with few options to prevent its spread. Soon, health-care workers and those who touched the bodies of the dead were coming down with the virus themselves and then passing it to others. By the time the outbreak was finally contained, more than 11,000 people had died.

Now, experts hope a vaccine can help contain a new outbreak of the virus in Congo — a simple intervention that could potentially have saved thousands of lives had it been ready in 2014.

On Friday, the World Health Organization announced its plan to send the experimental vaccine to northwest Congo, where there have been about 32 suspected or confirmed cases since early April and 18 deaths.

“We are very concerned and planning for all scenarios, including the worst-case scenario,” Peter Salama, WHO’s deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and response, said in Geneva on Friday.

Challenges will include keeping the vaccine at low temperatures in Congo's heat and with the lack of infrastructure in a rural area, as well as getting the vaccine to those who have been exposed to the virus. Despite it occurring outside an urban area, this particular outbreak may be harder to contain because it has already spread across 37 miles. Some of those infected are health workers, which poses an additional risk of transmission to others. Those who help bury or clean the bodies of the infected are also at high risk.

Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told The Washington Post that Ebola outbreaks are dangerous in an increasingly urbanizing Africa because once infections spread to a metropolitan area, they become much more difficult to control. Already, officials in Congo fear that the virus could spread to the provincial capital Mbandaka, home to around 1 million people.

“All it would take is one or two of these infected individuals to go into a larger metropolitan area,” Osterholm said. When it comes to the danger of a large outbreak, “Kinshasa is a gas tanker waiting for a match to hit it,” he added. The Congolese capital's population of 14 million means the disease would spread very quickly if it reaches the city, which is far from the affected area.

On Friday, Salama said he has spoken to Congo's health minister and hoped that he would soon have approval to use the vaccine, which was developed by Merck in 2016. In a trial of 11,800 people in Guinea in 2015, the vaccine had 100 percent efficacy, giving hope it could be a game-changer in preventing Ebola from spreading.

Researchers there used the same approach that was used to study smallpox, where they identify a “ring” of people who may have come into contact with an infected person and then vaccinated all of them after determining they may have been at risk. The side effects were mostly mild.

Congo has suffered a number of Ebola outbreaks in recent years but has largely managed to contain them. A 2014 outbreak killed 49 people. In this case, the vaccine's deployment is intended to assist health-care workers in ending the outbreak long before it has the possibility of turning into an epidemic.

Read more
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[Publius]

Nothing like having a few thousand human guinea pigs to test your new drugs on.

 

[Housecarl]

Nothing like having a few thousand human guinea pigs to test your new drugs on.

Yeah....

 

[Doomer Doug]

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-14/who-prepares-worst-case-congo-ebola-outbreak-spreads


WHO Prepares For "Worst Case" As Congo Ebola Outbreak Spreads
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by Tyler Durden
Tue, 05/15/2018 - 02:45


The WHO has tallied 32 suspected or confirmed cases in the northwestern area of Bikoro, on the shores of Lake Tumbathe near the border with the Republic of Congo, including 18 deaths, between April 4 and May 9.

The outbreak, declared by the DRC health ministry on Tuesday, is the DRC's ninth known outbreak of Ebola since 1976, when the deadly viral disease was first identified in then-Zaire by a Belgian-led team.

Scientists are greatly concerned that this outbreak in the remote Bikoro region will travel 175 miles to the city of Mbandaka - the capital of Equateur province and home to around 1.2 million residents.

What's worrisome is that the most recent WHO update says that there are two probably cases at Wangata - which is very close to Mbandaka.

Peter Salma, head of emergency response at the World Health Organization (WHO) said last week: "If we see a town of that size infected with Ebola, then we are going to have a major urban outbreak," adding "We are very concerned, and we are planning for all scenarios, including the worst-case scenario."

The WHO is planning to send up to 40 specialists to the affected area over the next week or so, while Salma adds that the UN hopes to have a mobile lab up and running this weekend, similar to the one set up by the WHO.

The WHO and World Food Programme are also working to set up an 'air-bridge' to help bring in supplies, however, only helicopters can be used until an airfield is cleared to allow larger planes to land, Mr Salama added.

The health body has released £738,000 ($1m) from its Contingency Fund for Emergencies to support response activities for the next three months. -Daily Mail

This marks the country's ninth epidemic since the ebola virus was identified in 1976. When a small outbreak hit the DRC last year, eight people were infected and four died. In 2014, 66 were infected out of which 49 died - a 74% fatality rate. In the 2002-2003 outbreak, 90% of those infected died. That said, on average the disease kills around half of those who contract it.

Ebola, a haemorrhagic fever, killed at least 11,000 across the world after it decimated West Africa and spread rapidly over the space of two years.

The pandemic was officially declared over back in January 2016, when Liberia was announced to be Ebola-free by the WHO.

The country, rocked by back-to-back civil wars that ended in 2003, was hit the hardest by the fever, with 40 per cent of the deaths having occurred there.

Sierra Leone reported the highest number of Ebola cases, with nearly of all those infected having been residents of the nation. -Daily Mail
Experts say the DRC's vast, remote terrain provides an advantage, as outbreaks often remain localized and easy to isolate. Bikoro, however, is not far from the Congo river - an essential waterway used for transport and commerce. Downstream lies Kinshasa and Brazzaville - the DRC's capital. The two cities are home to a combined 12 million people.

As such, neighboring countries are on high alert. Officials in Nigeria, Guinea and Gambia have incresaed screening measures along their airports and borders, measures which helped contain the virus during the West African epidemic that began in 2013.


Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Rwanda, Burundi and the Republic of Congo - which border the DRC - have all been alerted.

While Kenya, which does not border the country, has issued warnings over the possible spread of Ebola.

Thermal guns to detect anyone with a fever have been put in place along its border with Uganda and at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

Concerned health officials in Nigeria, which also does not border the DRC, have put similar measures in place to keep its population safe. -Daily Mail

Scientists believe Ebola is most often passed to humans by fruit bats, however porcupines, gorillas, antelope and chimpanzees could also be carriers. It is transmitted between humans through blood, secretions and other bodily fluids (and surfaces) of those infected.

There is currently no "proven" treatment for Ebola, however dozens of experimental drugs exist - including a vaccine called rVSV-ZEBOV, which has reportedly protected nearly 6,000 people.

 

[Blacknarwhal]

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-14/who-prepares-worst-case-congo-ebola-outbreak-spreads


WHO Prepares For "Worst Case" As Congo Ebola Outbreak Spreads
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by Tyler Durden
Tue, 05/15/2018 - 02:45

Good catch, Doug, but it's got its own thread. Figured that might have been better.

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...rst-Case-quot-As-Congo-Ebola-Outbreak-Spreads

 

[night driver]

I can't seem to bring all of the embed links here live and the wise and reasonably concerned adult really DOES need to tap the links. There are MANY in this short note.

http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2018/05/ebola-2018-since-you-asked.html


[warning. Aesop's language is rampant here]

First one, and now another, commenters in comments on other posts asked an opinion on the latest Ebola outbreak:

(CNN) An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has entered a "new phase" after it spread to a large city, the country's health minister, Dr. Oly Ilunga Kalenga, aid Wednesday.
The new case of Ebola virus disease has been confirmed in Wangata, one of the three health zones of Mbandaka, a city of nearly 1.2 million people in Equateur Province in northwestern Congo, the World Health Organization confirmed Thursday.
The spread of the virus from rural areas into a city has raised fears it could quickly spread and become harder to control.
A total of 45 cases of hemorrhagic fever have now been reported, including 25 deaths, the health ministry said Thursday. Fourteen cases have been confirmed with laboratory tests.
Until now, the cases and deaths were reported from the rural Bikoro health zone, nearly 150 kilometers from Mbandaka, allowing authorities to attempt ring-fencing vaccinations in the the affected areas.

A newly confirmed case in a densely populated part of the country will complicate attempts to control the outbreak.



"The arrival of Ebola in an urban area is very concerning and WHO and partners are working together to rapidly scale up the search for all contacts of the confirmed case in the Mbandaka area," said Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO's regional director for Africa.
"With the new case confirmed in Mbandaka, the scenario has changed," said Henry Gray, an MSF emergency coordinator in Mbandaka. "It is paramount to trace the suspect case in order to have a clearer view on how it reached the city."
In Mbandaka and Bikoro, 514 people who may have been in contact with infected people have been notified by national health authorities and are being monitored, according to MSF.
My original response still applies:
One case is just one case. No big deal.

It's when it starts morphing to two, four, eight, 16, 32 in a few weeks (like it does)that it starts getting dicey. In a city of over 1M just improves the odds that it hops a plane to another continent before anyone's looking for it.

If Dallas had gone to four or eight cases in 2014, it would've gotten away from us in the U.S., and we would've been off to the races.

Jackasses with double-digit IQs forget that at the latter stage of the 2014 outbreak crisis, we had exactly one open BL-IV patient bed left, for the entire United States.

After that, hospitals become ghost towns pretty quickly.
I didn't like sportscasting the end of the world the last time, and I'll be dragged to it again only kicking and screaming.

One can only hope that both WHO, and TPTB in this administration are brighter than the unmitigated and incompetent @$$clowns showcased in the last one in 2014, who came within a whisker of getting everyone everywhere killed. No shit.

There are three posts from my Greatest Hits album you should probably refresh your memory upon.

Logarithmic Growth 101 : How Ebola doubles in the real world.
TL;DR: We are currently at between a 4 and a 5, on a 33-point scale of whether or not to panic. So we're still in the "small potatoes" phase.
So far.
(To recap, a 10 is 1000 cases. A 20 is just shy of 1M. A 30 is entire continents. 33 is functionally everybody.)

Do The Math : This is a breakdown of what the actual US resources are for dealing with Ebola.
TL;DR: 23 beds. It's actually worse than that: it turns out the hospitals in question are only staffed for 11 beds. For the entire U.S. At the height of things in 2014, we had 10 patients in those 11 beds. we were two actual patients away from everything turning to shite, just like Liberia/Sierra Leone/Guinea,because we were down to one open bed.

Surfing USA : how to deal with Ebola, if and when it comes here, and overwhelms our ability to treat it.
TL;DR: Forget masks. Stock up on food and water. And bullets.

You have a couple of things going for you this time around.

1) Obozo and his team of @$$clowns aren't running the show.
(That, dear friends, is yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge.)

2) There's a new Ebola vaccine that shows some promise, unlike last time around:
The World Health Organization, which earlier this week deployed 4,000 doses of experimental vaccine along with emergency teams and equipment to the Congo to control the outbreak, described the situation as "a concerning development."
The Ebola vaccine being provided -- called rVSV-ZEBOV -- has been shown to be safe in humans and highly effective against the Ebola virus, according to the WHO.
A 2016 study found it to be 100% effective in trials in Guinea in coordination with the country's Ministry of Health after the 2014-15 outbreak.

The other shoes dropping:
1) The virus may have mutated, rendering the vaccine ineffective already.
2) This outbreak has already blown past the vaccine-ring they tried to throw around it, either because of bacteriological factors (#1, above) or because of sloppy quarantine and human cupidity and stupidity in the region in question.

Either of these may render the vaccine approach useless, and then we're back to my Greatest Hits selection.

Since you asked.

Personally, as in the Spring of 2014, I'm hoping this is the only time I need to visit this topic this year.
But if you're a religious person, a prayer or two is in order.
Ebola, unbridled, is literally hell on earth.

Have A Nice Day.

 

[Profit of Doom]

“We still have hand sanitisers in our restrooms too.“

We are, however, out of toilet paper, ass gaskets, and paper towels.