At least six Americans have been exposed to the deadly Bundigbyo strain of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) being expected to remove them from the country.
The six Americans were exposed to the virus during an ongoing outbreak that has spread through the country and reached major urban centres, including the capital Kinshasa.
Of the six, three were in situations classed as “high-risk exposure.”
One is symptomatic.
At present, it’s unclear whether they are still in Congo.
On Sunday, the CDC issued a statement that it was working for the “safe withdrawal of a small number of Americans who are directly affected in outbreak areas.”
The Americans may be brought back to the US, or isolated elsewhere for monitoring.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global health emergency over the outbreak.
The virus, which has spread across Congo and now Uganda, has been labeled a “public health emergency of international concern.”
According to the WHO, there are “significant uncertainties to the true number of infected persons and geographic spread” and a “limited understanding of the epidemiological links” between victims.
Data “all point towards a potentially much larger outbreak than what is currently being detected and reported.”
The WHO is in the process of airlifting tons of supplies to affected communities in the Congo’s Ituri province, where at least 80 deaths and 250 suspected cases have been reported.
Officials warn there are no known treatments for this strain of Ebola, unlike the well-known Zaire strain.
Although the outbreak does not meet the definition of a “pandemic emergency,” it has already reached major population centers, including the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
The Bundibugyo strain was first identified in 2007, during an outbreak in Uganda which killed 32% of those infected.
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Thanks to MAGA’s utter contempt for vaccines, epidemiological science and good sense, humanity is poised to be threatened by a superbug bred as a consequence of the Trump administration’s gross neglect of public health.
If viruses allowed to flourish by RFK Jr.’s performative “oversight” are exposed to each other within a single human host, it could produce a virus with the long incubation period of hantavirus, high transmissibility of measles and the high mortality of ebola.
Should responsible scientists develop an effective vaccine, MAGA grifters will shift blame for deaths caused by the disease to the vaccine, slagging it as “deadly” and putting lives at risk so they can sell the maximum amount of their competing product.
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Thanks to MAGA’s utter contempt for vaccines, epidemiological science and good sense, humanity is poised to be threatened by a superbug bred as a consequence of the Trump administration’s gross neglect of public health.
If viruses allowed to flourish by RFK Jr.’s performative “oversight” are exposed to each other within a single human host, it could produce a virus with the long incubation period of hantavirus, high transmissibility of measles and the high mortality of ebola.
Expect MAGA grifters to quickly supply the new market with a snake-oil “miracle cure” from their stocks of useless horse pills that didn’t sell during the covid pandemic.
Because the new pandemic will be justifiably blamed on MAGA’s “dear leader”, its grifter cohort will purposely conflict politics with science and simultaneously dismiss the deadly virus as a “hoax” while aggressively marketing the “cure”.
Should responsible scientists develop an effective vaccine, MAGA grifters will shift blame for deaths caused by the disease to the vaccine, slagging it as “deadly” and putting lives at risk so they can sell the maximum amount of their competing product.
This Ebola breakout is somehow tied to Trump cutting the funds for WHO 1/20/25 and withdrawing the USA from WHO effective 1/22/26.