Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo an emergency per WHO

[britporn_mike]

Ebola is no joke we must take this one seriously.



"The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a public health emergency of international concern.

The agency said the outbreak in DR Congo's eastern Ituri province, which has seen around 246 suspected cases and 80 deaths reported, does not meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency.

But it warned it could potentially be "a much larger outbreak" than what is currently being detected and reported, with significant risk of local and regional spread.

The current strain of Ebola is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, the health agency said, for which there are no approved drugs or vaccines.

Early symptoms include fever, muscle pain, fatigue, headache and sore throat, and are followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, a rash and bleeding.

The WHO said there are now eight laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus, with other suspected cases and deaths across three health zones including Bunia the capital of Ituri province, and the gold-mining towns of Mongwalu and Rwampara.

One case of the virus has been confirmed in the capital Kinshasa, believed to be in a patient returning from Ituri.

The WHO said that the virus has spread beyond DR Congo, with two confirmed cases reported in neighbouring Uganda. Ugandan officials said a 59-year-old man who died on Thursday had tested positive."



https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l2p0wwzzdo

[GRXlinks]

What are the odds it will become a pandemic, all I have want to know.

[TheButcher]

What are the odds it will become a pandemic, all I have want to know.

What if it does not going to sit worry about every news about a disease getting me worked up about it.

[Webby]

This can get bad real fast if people travel and spread the virus

[vblogger]

No approved drugs means you are cooked if you get the virus

[britporn_mike]

An Ebola outbreak which has killed at least 131 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo may be spreading faster than originally thought, a World Health Organization (WHO) representative has warned.

Dr Anne Ancia told the BBC that the more the agency investigates, the clearer it becomes that cases have spread to other areas.

Officials said more than 513 cases were suspected in DR Congo as of Tuesday, while one person has died in neighbouring Uganda.

But modelling by the London-based MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis released on Monday suggested there had been "substantial" under-detection, and that it could not rule out there had already been more than 1,000 cases.

The study suggested that the current outbreak is "larger than currently ascertained" and that its "true magnitude remains uncertain".

The Red Cross warned that Ebola can escalate quickly if cases are not identified early, communities lack information and health systems are overwhelmed, adding that "we are seeing all those conditions" in the current outbreak.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqp11gn1l8o



This is bigger than I first thought stay safe

[3ric]

Oh fuck if it's an epidemic it's bad news

[gspotman]

What will Trump call it "The Congo virus?"

[CanadianChick]

Good for the US for keeping out a potentially infected person but bad news for us in Canada.


"An Air France flight bound for the United States was diverted to Montreal due to American flight restrictions tied to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Online plane tracker FlightAware shows the plane was en route from Paris to Detroit when it landed at Trudeau International Airport on Wednesday.

Air France says a passenger was denied entry into the U.S. due to new regulations that travellers from certain countries, including the Congo, can enter only through Washington.

Canadian and American health officials did not immediately return requests for comment.

Health officials are on alert as a deadly outbreak of a rare type of Ebola called Bundibugyo ravages the Congo and neighbouring Uganda.

Ontario’s health ministry says one person has been tested for several infectious diseases, including Ebola, out of an abundance of caution due to the person’s travel history.

The Public Health Agency of Canada says samples are expected to arrive at the National Microbiology Laboratory on Thursday.

The World Health Organization has reported almost 600 suspected cases and 139 suspected deaths, though officials believe the scale of the spread is much larger.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 21, 2026.

Aaron Sousa, The Canadian Press"

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article ... trictions/

[pussyhunter]

Oh fuck if it's an epidemic it's bad news

Hello where have you been

[Big MOE]

Is it a pandemic in the making?

[greatpornlinks]

I give it another 2 months and they will call it a pandemic, we will be back to early 2020 and the Covid-19 pandemic scenario

[killah]

Is a vaccine being worked on?

[tacnet]

What are the odds it will become a pandemic, all I have want to know.

It really doesn't sound like this will become the next pandemic. WHO is reporting around 800 cases in the first month since the outbreak. If you remember, Covid was half way round the world by then.

We can all rest easy in the knowledge that Trump cut funding to the WHO which lost 2,371 jobs as a result. He then gutted the CDC of professionals including their Ebola response teams and totally dismantled USAID who were distributing around $1.4 billion of medical assistance in the Congo in 2024. That figure has dropped to just $21m so far this year. In Uganda it's dropped from $674 million to NEGATIVE $1.2 million so far in 2026 !! (How the hell it ends up negative God only knows)

"“It was pennies compared to what you get in return,” Andersen said of global health investments. It is far cheaper and easier to prevent and contain outbreaks than it is to respond to them, he said. With the US cutting off the first option, the second scenario will become increasingly common."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/ ... lic-health

[born2bewild]

My 2 cents this is going to be widespread across countries.