robosmith Posted May 17 Report Posted May 17 W.H.O. Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency Quote The World Health Organization declared on Saturday that the spread of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda was a global health emergency. The announcement was made a day after Africa’s leading public health authority reported that an outbreak in a province in the northeast of the country was linked to dozens of suspected deaths. By Saturday, cases had also been confirmed in Kinshasa, Congo, and in Kampala, Uganda, the capital cities of each country, the W.H.O. said. In Congo’s Ituri province, where the outbreak was first identified, 246 suspected cases and 80 deaths attributed to the virus had been reported, although only eight cases had been definitively linked to the virus through laboratory testing. There is no approved vaccine or therapeutics for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola behind the outbreak, according to the W.H.O. The scale of the outbreak could be far larger than has been detected and reported, the W.H.O. said in declaring a “public health emergency of international concern.” It added that there were “significant uncertainties” about the precise number of people infected and the “geographic spread.” The W.H.O.’s declaration signals a public health risk requiring a coordinated international response, and is intended to prompt member countries to prepare for the virus to spread and to share vaccines, treatments and other resources needed to contain the outbreak. The U.S. Agency for International Development has played a major role in containing previous outbreaks, but last year it was shuttered by the Trump administration. It is unclear how that might have affected the response to this outbreak. The administration also cut funding for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the leading public health agency in the country. It also withdrew in January from the W.H.O. The outbreak does not meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency, the highest level of alert, that was applied to the Covid pandemic, the W.H.O. said. Some global health experts were alarmed that the first reports of the outbreak emerged so late in its development. A surge in cases is typically picked up much earlier by the W.H.O., other health organizations or by news reports, said Jennifer Nuzzo, the director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health. Quote
User Posted May 17 Report Posted May 17 Oh great. Back to being the part time lazy news aggregator now… Quote
John Johnston Posted May 17 Report Posted May 17 2 hours ago, robosmith said: W.H.O. Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency No worries. Racoon Man and Dr. Ozempic are on the case. It's a good thing we have the USAID to help mitigate infectious diseases. Oh wait... Quote
User Posted May 17 Report Posted May 17 40 minutes ago, John Johnston said: No worries. Racoon Man and Dr. Ozempic are on the case. It's a good thing we have the USAID to help mitigate infectious diseases. Oh wait... Who is this we? All you do is shit talk America on here. Whatever shit hole you are living in, why are they not out there doing something? Quote
Nationalist Posted May 17 Report Posted May 17 3 hours ago, robosmith said: W.H.O. Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency Oh goodie! Another reason to be a scared little pansie. Quote Its so lonely in m'saddle since m'horse died.
robosmith Posted May 17 Author Report Posted May 17 1 hour ago, Nationalist said: Oh goodie! Another reason to be a scared little pansie. If you're not scared of catching Ebola, you're an lDIOT, and will be dead if you're fearless enough to catch it. Quote
User Posted May 17 Report Posted May 17 32 minutes ago, robosmith said: If you're not scared of catching Ebola, you're an lDIOT, and will be dead if you're fearless enough to catch it. WTF? Why would any of us be scared of catching Ebola? We live in North America, not Africa, not in the Congo or Uganda. Quote
gatomontes99 Posted May 17 Report Posted May 17 41 minutes ago, robosmith said: If you're not scared of catching Ebola, you're an lDIOT, and will be dead if you're fearless enough to catch it. Why? Are you planning on sticking your finger up a man's butt and then licking it? Ebola is incredibly hard to get. Just stop Quote Don't you think that if I were wrong that I would know it?
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