Congo mystery disease “investigation deepens” as deadly, unidentified illness spreads, WHO says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/congo-mystery-disease-deaths-who-investigation-deepens/
Congo mystery disease “investigation deepens” as deadly, unidentified illness spreads, WHO says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/congo-mystery-disease-deaths-who-investigation-deepens/
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The World Health Organization said Thursday that its “investigation deepens” into a mystery illness suspected of killing more than 60 people in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo over the past five weeks, warning it was continuing to spread.
The WHO said in a statement Thursday that, along with Congo health officials, it was “carrying out further investigations to determine the cause of another cluster of illness and community deaths” in the Equateur province, marking the third time this year disease surveillance teams have identified an increase in illness and deaths in the region.
If only there were some sort of group that investigated these things and prevented them spreading, say, a pandemic response team. Oh, right, Obama created one and Trump killed it, so COVID-19 killed ten million people.
Thanks, Obama!
Cool cool cool cool cool cool
Hopefully we can get this mystery virus, bird flu, and measles to spread exponentially at the same time. /s
Well that’s lousy timing… 🇨🇦 🤙 🇺🇸
Yay! Another new flavour of hemorrhagic fever. What a way to go.
Forget about nukes. We are all just going to die out to the lauge because anti-science has won, and people in power want us to suffer. Nukes would be too merciful at this point.
Oh good I had new deadly illness on my bingo card.
Stop eating bats
What did the people of Congo do wrong one after the other things ain’t looking good for them
Many people are saying this mysterious illness is linked to insufficient piety and recommend emergency doses of vitamin Jesus. Many people.
Good thing we left the WHO
Hope it’s not a leak from a temu deadly pathogen lab in those forests.
Another ‘mystery disease’ in Congo, and bats might be involved again. Given how fast these outbreaks escalate, I hope the WHO figures it out before it spreads. If it turns out to be something new, we’re looking at another global health nightmare in the making.
The World Health Organization said Thursday that its “investigation deepens” into a mystery illness suspected of killing more than 60 people in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo over the past five weeks, warning it was continuing to spread.
“The most recent cluster occurred in the Basankusu health zone, where last week 141 additional people fell ill,” the United Nations’ global health agency said. “In the same health zone, 158 cases and 58 deaths were reported in the same health zone earlier in February. In January, Bolamba health zone reported 12 people who fell ill including 8 deaths.”
A health official who works in the region told CBS News on Thursday that “those teams have been gutted by the Trump administration’s recent U.S. foreign aid cuts.”
One U.S. health official who spoke with CBS News disputed that aid had been restored, however, and said that “locally trained health workers in some of the infectious disease hot zones in Africa have not been paid, and some have been dismissed entirely due to the USAID cuts.”
Health officials say they’re searching for unusual patterns in cases of the mystery illness, but the situation is dire: “943 people with such symptoms had been identified, including 52 who had died.”
“The reality is there have been multiple Ebola outbreaks across Africa in recent months, and now this mystery illness in Congo is super dangerous. We just don’t know enough,” said Sarah Olsen, the director of Health Research at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Adding to the chaos, the M23 rebel group has captured large swaths of territory, pushing refugees into camps and adding to the burden of an already struggling health sector.
“These illnesses know no boundaries. Now is the time to increase vigilance before one of these illnesses ends up in a major city center and begins a new pandemic.”
The remoteness of the affected areas and Congo’s limited national health system and poor roads and phone infrastructure have all contributed to the challenges of diagnosing and containing the illness.
The region is facing “a perfect storm” for the potential spread of infectious diseases, including possible new ones.
If only there was an organized group that would disperse aid to people who need food, education and medicine.
Ah fuck …. At this point why not… let’s go
I hear that bell A-tollin’.
It was inevitable.
When will people stop eating bats. Have we not learned our lesson?
Ahh, the canceling USAID has to be thee dumbest single thing my country has ever done. I was hoping I’d be alive for the balkanization of America. Guess not.
I remember a movie like this, should be dropping the air burst bomb on that village any day now
I think RFK should visit in person. He’s taken enough Ivermectin to not wear any PPE. Would be good optics.
Remember when they tried to scare us with monkey pox? Pharmafia want their next rona star so bad so they can peer pressure you again to get your doses of NewVax.
It’s sad to see them fuel distrust towards actual useful vaccines especially the ones protecting kids
So. Where’s it spreading so far
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