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

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: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday March 27 2019, @12:58AM (2 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday March 27 2019, @12:58AM (#820430) Homepage Journal

    You're a very lucky young lady. Because you don't remember the rain of terror of Cheatin' Obama, our first -- and hopefully last -- African "President." Very bad time and I remember it all too well. 2019, they have 1,000 people with EBOLA and Beth Mole gets her panties in a Twist about it. Believe me, 1,000 is a nothing compared to what it was. And it's nothing like what it was.

    2016, West Africa was absolutely RAGEING WITH EBOLA. Tens of thousands of "people" dieing. And Obama was letting our Bleeding Heart Doctors & Nurses fly over there, do a lot of work with the EBOLA patients and fly back -- no quarantine. I spoke out very strongly, I was almost the only Voice of Reason. I said the U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great -- but they must suffer the consequences. I said, now I know for sure that our leaders are incompetent. I said, stop the EBOLA patients from entering the U.S. Treat them, at the highest level, over there. The United States has enough problems -- KEEP THEM OUT OF HERE! Very dangerous if they come here. People don't know this, many people in Africa are immune to EBOLA. In U.S.A., not so much. EBOLA, for the American immunity system, is this totally new thing. You let that one into our Country, it's going to be much worse here than it is in Africa. In terms of, how many get sick. Not necessarily the dieing -- because our medical is the best in the entire World. And by the way, I'm working to make it even better -- I put my legal guys on the total repeal of Obamacare. U.S.A.!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:15AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:15AM (#820450)

    Ah, that makes sense. You're afraid if the white snowflake race is eradicated by smallpox, it will remind you too much of that time the indigenous peoples of North America were wiped out by ebola.

    Your white snowflake race is rich. Build some hospitals. Admit PAs and RNs to the AMA. You'll figure something out if you want to preserve capitalism. Just as long as you can keep the working class fooled into believing that they're temporarily embarrassed capitalists and that "there is no money" isn't total bullshit.

    If you're in the working class or not even that fortunate, it's just a matter of time anyway. Something is going to get you sooner or later because "there is no money."

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @05:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @05:56PM (#820818)

      the mongoloids weren't fucking "indigenous" just because they were there when modern europeans got there, possibly not for the first time.