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    Default CDC Director: Congo’s Ebola Outbreak May Not Be Containable

    CDC Director: Congo’s Ebola Outbreak May Not Be Containable

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    November 8th, 2018




    Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that people need to be prepared for the worst. Redfield said the Democratic Republic of Congo’s newest Ebola outbreak may not be containable.

    Tom Inglesby, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore, said that if the Ebola outbreak becomes endemic in the Congo’s North Kivu province, it shows “we’ve lost the ability to trace contacts, stop transmission chains and contain the outbreak.” In this situation, Ebola could spread, which could negatively impact both trade and travel, according to a report by Becker’s Hospital Review.

    “I do think this is one of the challenges we’ll have to see, whether we’re able to contain, control and end the current outbreak with the current security situation, or do we move into the idea that this becomes more of an endemic Ebola outbreak in this region, which we’ve never really confronted,” Dr. Redfield told The Washington Post.

    According to The Washington Post, if international Ebola containment efforts fail in the Congo, it would mark the first time the virus was not stopped since 1976 when Ebola was first identified. The current Ebola outbreak is going on its fourth month, totaling 300 cases and 186 deaths as of November 4th.

    The problems with containment of this particular Ebola outbreak stem from the fact that the disease is spreading in an active war zone with several armed groups attacking health officials, government aids and civilians. Some civilians with Ebola have refused treatment, and health care workers are still being infected. About 60 to 80 percent of new cases do not show an epidemiological link to prior cases.

    The daily rate of new Ebola cases had more than doubled in early October. In addition, there is community resistance and a deep mistrust of the government as the raging outbreak continues to spread through an active war zone. The World Health Organization (WHO), CDC and other international health organizations say they are worried about the current Ebola outbreak spreading to port cities like Butembo, which will only exacerbate infection transmission rates.

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    We were in Africa during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. Kenya had common sense safeguards in place to prevent people with Ebola from coming into their country. First, no one from a country which had Ebola was allowed into Kenya, period. Next, everyone entering Kenya from any country whatsoever was scanned with a temperature sensing camera to determine if they had a fever.These measures worked well as Kenya had no cases of Ebola.

    We all know that these measures would never be implemented by our government because they are racist and xenophobic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pastor Guest View Post

    We all know that these measures would never be implemented by our government because they are racist and xenophobic.
    Obama actually imported diseased individuals.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bear View Post
    Obama actually imported diseased individuals.
    eb 2019 Ebola Update: Cheery Thoughts






















    [FONT="arial" ]Six months in, the second-worst Ebola outbreak in history trails only the 2014 West African Pandemic Games Ebola world record (Level 15-17, depending on whose numbers you believe.)[/FONT]
    [FONT="arial" ]You are officially at a Level 10 on the 34-Step Pandemic Panic-Meter©.[/FONT]
    FYI, every ten steps or so takes the number of cases up by 10³.
    I.e., Level 1 is 1 case (Patient Zero).
    Level 10 is 1,000 cases (Now, 6 months into the outbreak).
    Level 20 is 1,000,000 cases (At current course and speed, perhaps this coming August, six months from now. And that's with a near-flawless experimental vaccine in use.)
    {And yes, the Black Death and smallpox are still the all-time record holders. So far.}
    Level 30 is 1,000,000,000.
    Level 34 is everyone. (Minus the infectious but survived-the-initial-infection 20%).

    FWIW, West Africa topped out somewhere around 90,000 cases and 30K-40K deaths (using the conservative estimate that reported numbers were "only" 1/3 of reality numbers. And Word To Your Mother, with actual mortality numbers, if they had 90K cases - and they did - they had >70K deaths. Even with the 30K number of cases, deaths would have to be around 24K. So you can tell they were lying, because their lips were moving.)

    And they admitted two months ago this outbreak would go on at least another six months. Things now are worse than two months ago there, not better. Ponder that before you think this will "burn itself out" ever, let alone anywhere south of 1,000,000 cases.

    And yes, the official tally right now is "only" 959, not an actual 1000, but due to the fact that they haven't been able to vaccinate, trace contacts, or even operate health teams in the highest-affected areas for days and weeks at a stretch, the reality is that they probably blew past 1000 cases some weeks ago. I'm going with calling that one now, instead of waiting for next week's WHO report.

    And once again, the fatality rate is right on at 80%. Not the happy-gas 60%.
    (Go to Wikitardia's page: Take the deaths today. Divide that number by the confirmed Ebola cases 21 days earlier. Nota bene that result is consistently within a point of 80%, going back to the first weeks of the outbreaks. Math: Still a thing, Wikipedia.)

    And in case you weren't aware, Ebola "care" in DRC, and all of Africa, at Ebola Treatment Centers, is always "palliative", i.e. "make their symptoms and inevitable death less uncomfortable", for the 80% who'll expire.The "lucky" 20% who survive will now carry the disease effectively for life (every time they check survivors, they find live virus reservoirs) and can look forward to not only re-infecting friends and family (which may be one hitherto unsuspected source of new outbreaks going back to the 1970s), but eventually going blind, and multiple other lifelong consequences. Good times. Oh, and that's exactly the future for the survivors treated here in the US in 2014-2015. Their lives are functionally over, and they're dead men/women walking.

    Bonus point for this outbreak:
    "the World Health Organization indicated that half of confirmed cases were not showing any fever symptom, thus making diagnosis more difficult."
    How do they screen out potential Ebola infectees at the airports and border crossings (when they bother to try)?
    Fever.
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