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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?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @02:28AM (2 children)
The only part of Chernobyl that counts is deep inside the reactor. Life sure did die there, and any disease contained solely within it is long gone.
Of course you know what I mean though. I mean heating the Ebola into plasma, ripping all the molecules apart into ions.
Yes, I do like big bombs. I like dead non-Westerners, particularly those who are corrupt and uncivilized. I can tolerate South Korea and Japan.
Don't you care about carbon emissions? Killing 7 billion people would help. Doing it with nukes is carbon-free.
But OK... we can do this without big bombs. It might be less enjoyable. We can mass produce small drones, each with a cheap rifle, designed to automatically target anything that moves. If going out to acquire supplies becomes impossible, it won't be more than a few weeks before every mammal larger than a housecat is gone. This alone may wipe out ebola; victory is assured if we get the bats. (bats are suspected to be ebola carriers) As a backup plan to wipe out any stragglers, we can spray nerve gas.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday March 26 2019, @02:37AM
Start that sprayer at your house first.
(Score: 2) by r1348 on Tuesday March 26 2019, @12:39PM
Let me be the first one to tell you to get out of your mom's basement.