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Ebola Outbreak Declared Global Health Emergency
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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
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 18 2019, @06:55PM (15 children)
So you said something else before you called for my murder. That makes it so much better!
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 18 2019, @07:20PM (14 children)
Are you advocating for a civil war, and the removal of the lawfully elected government? Are you one of those who wants to usurp the power and authorities of the President of the United States? You do realize that the term to describe that is "treason".
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 18 2019, @07:32PM
Nope, once again you are describing your own actions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @10:16PM (12 children)
Just calling for the legal removal of a legally elected POTUS. It's called "impeachment". If you illegally oppose the same, who is the traitor now? "Runaway Back!"
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 18 2019, @11:21PM (11 children)
Based on what high crime or misdemeanor?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @11:33PM (6 children)
Yes, all of them.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 18 2019, @11:44PM (5 children)
"I don't like the man" is not an impeachable offense.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @07:31AM
Emoluments Clause by itself is enough. Perjury, a la Clinton, is good too. Sex Trafficking of minors? Higher Education fraud. Obstruction of justice. Collusion with foreign powers. Tax evasion. Small hands. Nepotism. Defamation of sitting members of Congress. Putting armor on the Washington Mall. Yeah, don't like him. Because of the High Crimes and Misdemeanors!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday July 19 2019, @11:56AM (3 children)
Oh go to Hell and this time STAY there until this whole plague of humans blows over. His crimes are well-known and have been listed by, among other people, the AC directly below you. Mueller only did not go after him because precedent (not law, apparently...?) forbids prosecuting a sitting president. What a shitshow.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 19 2019, @02:37PM (2 children)
You gotta remember something though. Before being convicted, you'll have to PROVE one or more of those charges.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @11:04PM (1 child)
You are such a worm.
May everyone on this site forever remember what hides in that rotting heart of yours. You don't even have the excuse of ignorance, you've had reality explained to you countless times on this site alone.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 19 2019, @11:18PM
Keep explaining your version of "reality". If senility ever catches up to me, I may be prescribed some drugs good enough to convince me that you know what you are talking about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @01:28PM (3 children)
1. For starters, there's obstruction of justice (and secondarily conspiracy to obstruct justice) clearly laid out in the Mueller report (and played out on national television), that's a high crime.
2. Next there's conspiring with a foreign government ("Russia, if you're listening...") although the Mueller report says there's insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy (but not no evidence, let's be clear). That's another high crime.
3. Next there's using campaign funds to make hush money payments to pornstars regarding affairs. Campaign finance violations are fairly serious crimes too.
4. I suppose the inciting violence at his early rallies can be treated as either a high crime or a misdemeanor, whichever you prefer.
These are just the ones that came to me off the top of my head.
Shall we go through the trouble of researching for even more? Or should we hold him to at least a tenth of the strict standard that you would hold a democrat to?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 19 2019, @02:43PM (2 children)
By all means, hold him to the strict standards that I would hold a Democrat to. Teflon Bill, for instance? I never gave the smallest of damns whether he got a blow job in the White House, or not. Nor did I care that he may have lied about getting a blowjob. I didn't even care that he doubled down on his lie about a blowjob, again and again. That was all meaningless bullshit - he knew it, I knew it, the R's knew it, the D's knew it. About the only people who took it seriously, were the morons in the media. Kenneth Starr should have been brought up on charges for squandering multiple fortunes on an investigation over meaningless bullshit.
What pissed me off about the entire affair are the charges that were never discussed, let alone made against him. Treason. Bill should have gone to prison for selling military technology to the Chinese.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @06:16PM (1 child)
Who's "Bill"? Why are you talking about him?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @11:06PM
Oh that is easy, Bill is one of those Buttery Males that Runaway was repeatedly told to look for.