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Massive Ebola Outbreak Continues to Rage; Case Count Surpasses 1,000

posted by chromas on Tuesday March 26 2019, @01:33AM   Printer-friendly

martyb writes:

Massive Ebola Outbreak Continues to Rage; Case Count Surpasses 1,000:

The tally of deadly Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ticked above 1,000 this weekend as health responders continue to struggle to thwart the disease amid violent conflict.

The outbreak has been raging since August in the country’s North Kivu and Ituri provinces, which sit on the eastern side of the country, bordering South Sudan, Uganda, and Rwanda. The World Health Organization reported 1,009 cases (944 confirmed, 65 probable), including 629 deaths (564 confirmed, 65 probable) on Saturday, March 23.

The outbreak is the second largest of all time, surpassed only by the 2014 West African outbreak, which involved more than 28,000 cases and 11,000 deaths.

Violent attacks and lingering distrust have hampered medical responses throughout the outbreak. Earlier this month, militants attacked a treatment center in the city of Butembo in North Kivu, killing a police officer and injuring health workers. Last month, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) suspended medical responses after two other attacks on treatment centers. In both attacks, unidentified assailants partially burnt down facilities.

If the disease won't kill them, the violence could get them, instead. Or their family. What can they do? Leave? Where do they go? And what if they cannot afford to leave?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @01:53AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @01:53AM (#819844)

    Where have we seen that before?

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday March 26 2019, @02:06AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 26 2019, @02:06AM (#819848) Journal

    The zombie apocalypse?

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @02:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @02:37AM (#819866)

    There's quite a lot going on in DR Congo. Black Agenda Report has ongoing coverage [blackagendareport.com].

    See also Congo in the Abyss [consortiumnews.com].

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday March 26 2019, @04:15AM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Tuesday March 26 2019, @04:15AM (#819916) Homepage Journal

    Look at the By Line. It's another Beth Mole number. The Editors, for some reason, absolutely love these Beth Mole articles from Arse Tecnics. Beth is always out for someone's blood. Today it's the folks in Nambia we're supposed to hate & fear. Yesterday they got the torches & pitchforks out for the Doctor in San Diego. Before that it was the pogrom against our upstate New York Jews. Can we call it anti-semitic? They used to say, "oh the Jews are poisoning our wells." Now it's "oh the Jews are spreading measles." Gets a lot of clicks, a lot of tweets and if somebody takes it seriously and starts whacking people, I won't be surprised. Disgusting!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:06AM (#819976)

    Charlottesville [wikipedia.org]