EBOLA 2020 /WHO: 2600 Alerts are being Analysed /'Race against the clock ...

i hope this one won't spread...

High alert

WHO said 2600 alerts are currently being analysed across the country’s eastern provinces.

Health authorities had already planned to remain on high alert for the next 80 days, and to provide care for Ebola survivors as part of an 18-month programme of regular check-ups.

Efforts are now under way to find all potential contacts of the new cases in order to offer them vaccination and to monitor their health. If no new cases emerge, the DRC will have to wait another 42 days – the equivalent of two incubation periods for the virus – until the Ebola epidemic can be declared over.

The setback underlines the huge challenge posed in eradicating a virus. The problem is made worse by the arrival of the coronavirus in the DRC last month

Triple emergency

In a statement, Kate Moger at humanitarian organisation the International Rescue Committee called the situation a “triple emergency”. “Vulnerable populations facing ongoing humanitarian crises, the spread of COVID-19, and now again potentially a re-emerging Ebola crisis,”


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Holy shit. Better put the whole fucking planet back in lockdown.

Patient escapes clinic... 6 infected...

An Ebola flare-up in eastern Congo may spread again after a patient escaped from a clinic,

complicating efforts to contain the disease that has infected six people since last week, the World Health Organization said on Sunday.

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i hope he's not gonna travel, we don't need a second outbreak...

to keep an eye on ...

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hope not .

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We need to actually start combating and identifying species that acts as reservoirs for disease. It's pretty clear this must have started again from a non human host.

Everyone focused on wet markets whilst Bush meat literally caused HIV. This is a big part of population increases that has gotten such little attention. More and more people are interacting with animals humans have not had day to day interactions with.

PPE shortage and likely less international volunteers (medics will busy at home) could quickly turn this nasty.

'Race against the clock': How the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to undermine DRC's response to latest Ebola outbreak

Democratic Republic of Congo facing ‘perfect storm’ of health crises, with authorities attempting to contain coronavirus pandemic, largest measles outbreak in the world and now two Ebola epidemics

Disruption from the Covid-19 pandemic is set to hinder and delay the Democratic Republic of Congo’s response to its new Ebola outbreak, humanitarian groups have warned, with authorities facing a “race against the clock” to contain the country’s latest epidemic.

Ebola kills roughly 50 per cent of people it infects – recent research from the Red Cross found that coronavirus was eliciting far greater levels of fear among certain populations in the DRC. As such, humanitarian groups have insisted that education will be half the fight in tackling the outbreak.

“It’s a bit of a race against the clock,” said Mr Beigbeder. “I think if we’re quick enough and if we have the full access and full participation of the community we could kill it immediately.

“The danger would be that it starts to spread in different areas of the town and if it goes to the villages outside. This is why the next two weeks are so important, that we are to suppress it immediately.”

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