Ebola Outbreak in Congo Declared a Global Health Emergency

[the other mike]

"Honey, that African Safari vacation package we planned for September is non-refundable isn't it ?"

GENEVA — The deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday after the virus spread this week to a city of two million people .

A WHO expert committee had declined on three previous occasions to advise the United Nations health agency to make the declaration for this outbreak, which other experts say has long met the conditions. More than 1,600 people have died since August in the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, which is unfolding in a region described as a war zone.

This week the first Ebola case was confirmed in Goma, a major regional crossroads in northeastern Congo on the Rwandan border with an international airport. Health experts have feared this scenario for months.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/ebola-outbreak-in-congo-declared-a-global-health-emergency/

 

[Norman]

How long until it's on our border given the promise of free health care?

 

[the other mike]

How long until it's on our border given the promise of free health care?

We better call Dustin Hoffman.
By the way ....Why have they never made Outbreak 2 ?

 

[Dekster]

Seems like they would figure out by now that creating a serum from the survivors is probably the only effective way to prevent these things from spinning out of control.

 

[S.J.]

This guy can help.

 

[beautress]

Seems like they would figure out by now that creating a serum from the survivors is probably the only effective way to prevent these things from spinning out of control.

I read something on this today. They do have a limited amount of life-saving antidote. Not sure if there's enough to address this particular outbreak, though, with thousands of people exposed.

Here goes: "The committee has been convened three times in the past to decide whether or not the epidemic warrants being declared a global emergency; it has declined every time to do so. WHO’s Dr. Michael Ryan, who is directing the agency’s Ebola response, said the meeting would be held this week. Ryan said 30 contacts in the Goma case had already been vaccinated and the remaining 30 would be vaccinated on Tuesday." Congo tracing contacts of first Ebola case in eastern city

 

[Dekster]

This guy can help.

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Please. He would diagnose it as sarcoidosis.