Posted on 08/26/2018 6:31:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Health Ministry has said two people who received an experimental Ebola treatment have recovered. Yet officials are worried as the virus continues to spread into conflict areas.
The death toll from an outbreak of the Ebola virus in eastern Congo has risen to 67 people, health officials said Saturday, with response efforts complicated by the virus spreading further into conflict areas.
Since August 1, there have been 105 reported cases of Ebola in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, of which 77 have been confirmed by laboratory tests, according to the Health Ministry.
Eleven people have recovered from the virus, which causes vomiting, hemorrhagic fever and diarrhea.
Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga traveled to the heart of the outbreak in Mangina on Thursday and witnessed two patients being released from hospital after undergoing an experimental treatment.
"These two people are among the first 10 patients to have received the therapeutic molecule mAb114," the ministry said in a statement.
It is the first therapeutic treatment to be used in an outbreak of Ebola in the Congo. Four other experimental treatments have also been approved.
Tedros Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), on Saturday praised Congolese officials for quickly using experimental drugs to combat the deadly virus, calling it "a ray of hope for people with the disease."
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Will it break out to the First world this time?
We’ve been lucky so far but it can’t last.
Soon to develop drug resistant ebola
Places like congo and san francisco shall be ground zero for pandemics the likes of which the world has never seen
Remember to wash your hands.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
We should send Kaci Hickox!
"The death toll from an outbreak of the Ebola virus in eastern Congo has risen to 67 people, health officials said Saturday,
with response efforts complicated by the virus spreading further into conflict areas."
"Since August 1, there have been 105 reported cases of Ebola in North Kivu and Ituri provinces,
of which 77 have been confirmed by laboratory tests, according to the Health Ministry."
The situation is aggravated by geographic location, civil unrest, and residents migrating to other adjoining countries searching for food.
Uganda has already placed military and medical personnel at the border to prevent further spread
with mandated 'non-physical contact' thermometers to determine whether travelers have a fever.
Experimental drug medications and vaccines are being applied in an attempt to control the virus.
Here we go again.
This time, however, it will not be stopped.
How long before Trump is blamed?
Thanks, TIK.
Especially if you are employed in SF as a human sanitation worker!
It’s a matter of time. There are US health care workers coming home every day from there and operating on US patients the next day. Incubation time is said to be 2 - 21 days but it’s been known to break out days after that and remain in the body’s fluids for months or years after being declared cured.
Wonder if this was what Atlanta CDC Dr. Timothy Cunningham had knowledge of before he supposedly suicided himself.
Surely, Trump is smarter than obamy and won’t bring them back to the US.
FYI, the ebola plane recorded 50 flights the first 3 months of this year. Why? https://www.intellihub.com/nationwide-manhunt-underway-for-missing-cdc-worker-ebola-containment-aircraft-dispatched-to-little-rock-then-back-to-atlanta/
Just to be fair, central Africa has been doing a tremendous job at trying to contain this and I applaud them for it.
Seems like it's becoming more and more prevalent. Seems like only a matter of time until nasty mutations as well.
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