Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by janrinok on Thursday July 18 2019, @02:32PM   Printer-friendly

Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency

Submitted via IRC for Bytram

Ebola outbreak declared global health emergency

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo a "public health emergency of international concern". The move may encourage wealthy donor countries to provide more cash.

But the WHO stopped short of saying borders should be closed, saying the risk of the disease spreading outside the region was not high.

The outbreak in DR Congo has killed more than 1,600 people. This week, the first case was detected in Goma, home to more than a million. The PHEIC emergency provision is the highest level of alarm the WHO can sound and has only been used four times previously. This includes the Ebola epidemic that devastated parts of West Africa from 2014 to 2016, and killed more than 11,000 people.

"It is time for the world to take notice," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference in Geneva on Wednesday at which the emergency was declared. He said he accepted recommendations there should be no restrictions on travel or trade, and no entry screening of passengers at ports or airports outside the immediate region.

"While it does not change the reality on the ground for victims or partners engaged in the response, we hope it will bring the international attention that this crisis deserves," it said in a statement.

WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak an International Emergency

From WHO declares Ebola outbreak an international emergency

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the nearly year-long Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).

The outbreak was declared on August 1, 2018 and has tallied 2,512 cases and 1,676 deaths. So far, it's centered in the DRC's North Kivu and Ituri provinces, which are on the eastern side of the country bordering South Sudan, Uganda, and Rwanda.

The declaration Wednesday follows the spread of Ebola to Goma, a DRC city of nearly 2 million people at the border with Rwanda that acts as hub of regional transportation. On Sunday, health workers there confirmed the city's first case in a 47-year-old pastor who had just arrived from Butembo, a DRC city that has struggled with the outbreak since last December.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies welcomed the move.

Previously: Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster


Original Submission #1Original Submission #2

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 18 2019, @03:57PM (15 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 18 2019, @03:57PM (#868542) Journal

    Tell me how stupid I am when a Boeing drops passengers infected with Ebola in a dozen major cities around the world. Tell me then who the monsters are.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +2  
       Insightful=2, Total=2
    Extra 'Insightful' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   4  
  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by ikanreed on Thursday July 18 2019, @04:05PM (12 children)

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 18 2019, @04:05PM (#868546) Journal

    "Imagine this actually quite tame hypothetical scenario I invented, now is that worse than the very real concentration camps I openly support?"

    Fuck you. I hope to god there's a day when you pay for your crimes.

    I could explain to you how wrong your view of Ebola transmission and control is, based on the science, but what the fuck is the point of facts to someone with no conscience?

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 18 2019, @04:18PM (11 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 18 2019, @04:18PM (#868551) Journal

      Only the most ignorant, least informed people on earth can seriously consider the camps on our border as concentration camps. At Dachau, Jews checked in, but never checked out. On our border, brown people check in, and are eventually shipped south, or sent out into the US, with a court date. If you progressives would grow the fuck up, you would be so much easier to talk to.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @04:27PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @04:27PM (#868558)

        Actually only the most ignorant and hateful people agree with you. Reality, once again your nemesis.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday July 18 2019, @04:57PM (6 children)

        by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Thursday July 18 2019, @04:57PM (#868580) Journal

        Or die in custody due to inadequate levels of housing and medical care being given to the prisoners (who should be regarded as detainees but are treated as prisoners...) because of a number of factors including that the detention facilities are being run by for-profit companies and that the notion that enforcement should be stepped up without allowing for sufficient budget to care for those enforced upon. If you would open your eyes and see that these are human beings, no matter their circumstances, and are being treated as livestock, you would be so much easier to talk to.

        --
        This sig for rent.
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @05:03PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @05:03PM (#868587)

          "Then they shouldn't have come over illegally, they are criminals!"

          How the wheels of suppressed racism turn :/

        • (Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 18 2019, @05:54PM

          by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday July 18 2019, @05:54PM (#868608) Journal

          The racism in the conservative bubble isn't a bug, it's a feature.

        • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 18 2019, @06:53PM (3 children)

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 18 2019, @06:53PM (#868624) Journal

          So, uhhhhhhmmmmm, we should have been prepared for this invasion, by having millions of air conditioned homes available for them? Treated as livestock? Let me tune up the world's smallest violin, and I'll play them a tune. We owe those people nothing. Just as I owe a trespasser on my land nothing, we owe those people nothing.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @07:49PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @07:49PM (#868650)

            If you detain someone then yes, you owe them humanitarian conditions. You are a terrible person. Like irredeemable at this point.

            Did you just do a search/replace of "good" and "evil" in your brain? Humanity is one big family, but I guess that doesn't pass your tribal nature. I'll get a good laugh next time you accuse someone of identity / tribal politics.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @02:26AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @02:26AM (#868791)

              It's a guilty conscience. He knows what whites have done to the rest of the world, and now he's afraid of it happening to him to the point refugees the US itself is responsible for creating become an "invasion" by "military age males."

          • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday July 18 2019, @09:17PM

            by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Thursday July 18 2019, @09:17PM (#868695) Journal

            As I said, if you would see them as human beings conversation could be easier. May you never collapse on somebody else's land (or in public) and they look at you and say, "I owe you nothing. Die."

            But the better reason is this: "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." - Dostoyevsky.

            --
            This sig for rent.
      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @05:07PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @05:07PM (#868589)

        ItS OnLy WrONg WiTh GenOcIdE *herp derp*

        I think at this point we need to quarantine all Republicans in such camps until we get the country back on track.

  • (Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Friday July 19 2019, @07:22AM

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Friday July 19 2019, @07:22AM (#868867)

    How stupid you are? Trump level stupid.

    Have you any idea how big DRC is? How big the border is? You do realise a large part of the boarder is impassable jungle?

    If you put a guard every 100M, how many guards would you need? with a supervisor to every 12 guards, and a manager
    to each 12 supervisors, and then cooks, cleaners, transport staff? Logistical managers, military police, etc.

    In a country where the army is not in control of the country due to the civil war?

    What makes you think that the boarder guards won't be shot by the various parties to the civil war? Or die of Ebola on the job?

    That is just the DRC. You were talking about Africa as a whole. Think about trying to do this to the whole of South America - then double it.

    Are you nuts? on a scale of 0 -10, you are at 11.

    --
    Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @08:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @08:22AM (#868881)

    Tell me how stupid I am

    OK, if you insist! Runaway1956, you are really, really stupid. You are profoundly stupid. As 孔子 said,

    【理雅各译文】

    The Master said,“When good order prevailed in his country, Ning Wû acted the part of a wise man. When his country was in disorder, he acted the part of a stupid man. Others may equal his wisdom, but they cannot equal his stupidity.”

    http://ly.exuezhe.com/Chapter/SearchResultChapterContent?id=5&chapterId=5.21&query=%E9%82%A6&pageIndex=1&pageSize=10 [exuezhe.com]

    America is in disorder, and none can equal your stupidity, Runaway1956. I hope you are proud of yourself.