Posted on 08/11/2018 4:08:04 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Armed groups, dense populations and mass displacement make Congo’s latest deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus more challenging than ever to contain, the World Health Organization’s chief said Friday.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke after vaccinations began this week, with support from a U.N. peacekeeping mission, in Congo’s restive northeast where multiple rebel groups pose a threat and a heavily traveled border with Uganda is nearby.
Tedros and Congo’s health minister on Saturday planned to visit the village where the latest outbreak, Congo’s tenth, was declared on Aug. 1. The ministry says 48 cases have been reported, 21 of them confirmed as Ebola, including 11 deaths.
This outbreak is different from the one in Congo’s northwest that was declared over a week before this one began, Tedros said. “And that may require actually a stronger response.” …
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Send them all to Obama house.....
Thank GOD that Obola’s minion, Hillabob LOST.
And yet apparently National Guard members are expecting to be sent to Africa. I am sure it is not to protect the white farmers in South African who are being terrorized and killed.
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