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    The numbers keep going up..

    September showed the highest rise in the infection/death curves.

    Currently, in DR Congo, the NE side of the country, there are now a total of 177 cases (142 confirmed and 35 probable), including 113 deaths. Eleven suspected cases are under investigation.

    Oct 6, the DRC updated its information about exploratory Ebola treatments currently be used in the outbreak. A total of 56 patients have been treated with mAb 114, remdesivir, ZMapp or Regeneron monoclonal antibodies. Of these 56 patients, 27 are cured and have been discharged, 14 have died, and 15 are still hospitalized.

    Since Aug 8, 14,869 people have been vaccinated, including 5,072 in Beni, 4,269 in Mabalako, 1,663 in Mandima, 1,352 in Katwa, 1,100 in Butembo, 427 in Bunia, 355 in Tchomia, 270 in Masereka, 240 to Komanda, and 121 to Oicha.

    The people resist vaccination, saying they won't be affected by the contagion.. The attitude is if a family member is infected, to hide that member, and not send them to treatment, the result being most likely a death and a spread of the virus to the other family members and kinfolk.

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    Ebola Zaire strain

    Ebola has flared up in NE DR Congo

    11 new Ebola cases confirmed yesterday and today, the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak total climbed to 205 cases, amid new warning from the World Health Organization (WHO) that the security problems are getting worse and threaten to undermine the response, especially in Beni, is now the main hot spot.

    Of 39 new confirmed cases reported during the first 11 days of October, 32 (82%) were from the city (Beni), which has recently experienced conflict between rebel and armed groups, with resulting protests, and pockets of community resistance.

    Current count for those dead now stands at 125.

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    As of the 16th October, 211 confirmed and probable cases of Ebola have been reported since early July, when the latest outbreak of the disease started, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.

    Of those, 138 people have died from the highly deadly hemorrhagic fever.

    Earlier this week, the WHO noted that all of the health workers who have caught Ebola in this epidemic - 19 so far - have been infected outside of hospitals or clinics, meaning that the virus is spreading in the community.

    Treatment hindered: rebel violence in northeastern DRC has caused response efforts to be briefly suspended, health officials said earlier this week.

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    Map showing the locations currently exhibiting Ebola Zaire


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    The country of Zambia, on the south east border of DR Congo has started implementing training and education campaigns to alert the military and civilians about Ebola potentially coming in from DR Congo..
    The DRC is one of the poorest countries in the world, and suffers from ongoing internal conflicts that periodically flare into regional wars. The UN estimates that around 800,000 people have fled the violence, of which around 50,000 have escaped to Zambia.

    The ZNPHI’s training programme will provide healthcare workers with information on how to communicate risk, how to collect and transport specimens, health surveillance and strategies to prevent infection. According to Ante Mutati, a provincial surveillance officer for Luapula and a training participant, the frontline healthcare workers are meant to educate other team members on how to tackle Ebola outbreaks.
    Quote In September, Zambia’s ministry of health trained 216 health workers in the North-Western and Copperbelt provinces. Another 86 were trained in the Northern and Luapula provinces in August, the ministry said.

    The training programme focuses on doctors and nurses, but also includes environmental and public health officers, pharmacists and laboratory staff.

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    Ebola Zaire - claims 144 fatalities, with 223 infected/confirmed. Update 20 October 2018

    Children under age 16 made up nearly 60 percent of Ebola cases reported in the first two weeks of October..

    This is reported by medical authorities as being unusual.

    Assumption being the children caught such at a clinic being exposed to a patient.

    WHO says it is peak Malaria season too in the area.

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    And it goes up with no end in sight.. (sigh)

    Over the weekend and today, officials recorded 17 more cases of Ebola and 10 more deaths in the ongoing outbreak in the far eastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

    Eleven of the new cases were in Beni, the outbreak epicenter, and the remaining 6 were recorded in nearby Butembo. The new infections bring the total number of cases to 274.

    At least one of the deaths over the weekend was a community death in Butembo, DRC officials said. Community deaths pose a greater threat of virus spread than those that occur in a hospital or Ebola treatment center because of the likelihood of added exposure.

    From Oct 22 to Oct 28, DRC officials confirmed 36 new cases (28 in Beni and 8 in Butembo) and 19 more deaths.

    The UN (to no avail) is calling for cessation of violence in the areas affected by the Ebola Zaire strain.. It is unlikely that the rebels will pay attention.

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    As of 3 November, 2018, the number of cases of Ebola Zaire (infected and probable) reaches 285 people.

    Deaths have increased to 180 fatalities.

    To date, about 25,000 Congolese people have received Ebola vaccinations. Uganda is to start vaccinations for Ebola Zaire strain. Cross border traffic is high in the area.

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    2 days later the Ebola Zaire infection count is up to 300. Deaths are up to 186.

    A total of 26,463 people in the DRC have been vaccinated against the virus using the Canadian developed vaccine, and licensed to MERCK. Merck is calling it "their" experimental vaccine. Merck though is with-holding another vaccination to west Africa because they can get more MONEY from China. They are using their "ebola" prevention measure as a PR move, as there has been so much public exposure since 2014.. They would not have focused on the Ebola vaccine if it was not brought to light.

    Earlier in the thread there was a discussion about is PROFIT the motive for companies working to help with diseases, coming up with treatments or actual cures. MERCK is a corporation and is a profit mercenary. See MERCK's profit motive drive - https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2...accines-china/

    Quote In a controversial move, Merck is rolling back its commitment to provide a life-saving rotavirus vaccine to parts of West Africa at the same time the drug maker is ramping up supplies to China, where the product would reportedly be sold for a much higher price.

    The company supplies its RotaTeq vaccine through an arrangement with GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, a public-private partnership that helps provide medicines and vaccines to low-income countries. However, Merck is reducing shipments by one-third this year and next, according to GAVI. After that, supplies are not expected.

    About 4.7 million doses will be delivered this year and 4 million next year.

    As a result, more than a half million children in four countries — Burkina Faso, Mali, Ivory Coast, and Sao Tome — may not receive the vaccine for the illness, which inflames stomachs and intestines and is the world’s leading cause of diarrhea. About 213,000 deaths among children were attributed to rotavirus in 2013, according to the World Health Organization.

    Profit motive - bucks made instead of lives saved


    Quote Merck made plans to begin selling RotaTeq in China, where a dose may cost around $40, compared with $3.50 in West Africa..
    Merck's spin-doctor tried to cover up the move:

    Quote “We are committed to saving and improving lives around the world with our vaccines, and we are working closely with our customers around the world, including UNICEF and GAVI, to meet the unprecedented increase in global demand for vaccines, including for rotavirus,” she added.

    Merck has a contract with UNICEF to supply RotaTeq to West Africa, and GAVI helps to fund the arrangement.
    As long as health-care life saving is up for "PROFIT" the world will continue to suffer from the corporate maggots. When competition is stiffed and children and elderly are used as pawns in global take-overs by these vultures society will evermore be damaged, harmed and abused by the "board of directors" and the CEO's setting out "policy". Children and elderly are "useless mouths" unable to pay in these maggots' minds.. They support those who will pay the highest rates.

    Why is the world still allowing an outdated corporatism to run the world?

    Who owns Merck - Procter and Gamble - see any of your favorite products in the list?



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    Ebola Zaire strain in DR Congo NE update

    Over the weekend and through today, the DRC recorded 21 more cases of Ebola, for a total of 373 cases, including 216 deaths. Seventy-two cases are suspected and under investigation.

    Beni has been the epicenter of the current Ebola outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, which has been going on for more than 4 months and has become the DRC's largest Ebola outbreak to date.

    There have been recent cases in Kalunguta, a health district in one of the DRC's security red zones. Ebola was spread to the area by a confirmed case-patient from Beni who escaped surveillance in that city. The community has been accommodating to health workers, and more than 800 people have been vaccinated.

    At least 2 of the 21 new cases recorded this weekend were in Kalunguta.

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    Malawi - Government says it has put in place appropriate measures to reduce the chances of Zaire strain of Ebola Virus spreading into the country.

    Minister of Health and Population, Atupele Muluzi, was speaking in Parliament on Friday.

    "The Ministry of Health is on alert and we are monitoring closely together with World Health Organization (WHO) any development of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

    "Our soldiers from Malawi Defence Force who are deployed in DRC are being screened when they are leaving and even when coming back to check if they have contracted the virus," Muluzi said.

    He further said government, through his ministry, has set up infection- inspection centres throughout the country to ensure that people entering this country are screened of the disease.

    "We have deployed Ebola monitoring equipment at all the international airports and all the border posts so that they can be screening all people who are leaving and entering this country.

    "We have monitoring centres in Lilongwe, Blantyre, Karonga and Nsanje with the help from World Bank. The ministry is also monitoring all refugees' camps under United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to make sure that we do not have the outbreak here," Muluzi said.


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    As of the 28th November, deaths resultant from the Ebola Zaire strain in NE DR Congo is now up to 241.

    The amount of cases is now 421 confirmed with 47 more probable as infected.

    74 more people are under observation from having come in contact with known cases of the infection.

    The outbreak is centered around the eastern city of Beni in North Kivu of DR Congo. It is in the middle of a war/conflict region.

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    Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) report on NE DR Congo Ebola Zaire strain outbreak

    Up more-so again, both in recorded cases and deaths.

    As of 6 December 2018 the death total is 263.

    458 cases are logged, with a suspicion of an additional 75 probable cases being investigated..

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    This outbreak just took a dangerous turn for the worse.

    A highly populated city 35 miles away from the main epicenter (Beni) has been showing cases.

    The health ministry said the "high density and mobility" of Butembo's population presents new challenges to containment efforts, already complicated by sporadic rebel attacks on remote villages in and around Beni.

    Butembo, a bustling city of almost a million people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is reporting an increasing number of cases of Ebola virus disease in the country's current epidemic. There has been a "significant increase" in infections there over the past three weeks, with a total of 25 confirmed cases thus far, according to Thursday's bulletin from the country's health ministry.

    Butembo is a key trading and transport hub with links to other major cities in the country as well as to neighboring Uganda. It's about two times the size of the city of Beni.

    A day later and the deaths are up by 10, now showing 273 dead. 471 people are showing as experiencing hemorrhagic fever symptoms.


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    Some pictures of Butembo





    Conflict region - making it difficult for tracking those infected and their "circles"





    Many people close together



    And now this



    Vaccines are hardly existent at this point

    MERCK needs to ramp up
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    Once it is in major cities in Africa, I do not see how it can be controlled. Those are poor and uneducated people, they do not have the right information nor the know how to avoid the spread on individual basis, plus adding to the complexity the culture of hiding (war countries always hide for survival).

    Yep, for once, I am for some vaccination if at all possible and - or efficient.
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    It grows.

    Outbreak totals now stand at 505 cases, including 298 deaths. The new cases include two in Katwa and one each in Komanda, Musienene, and Mabalako. At least one of the newly recorded deaths occurred in the community, in Katwa, an event that heightens the risk of virus spread, the DRC said.

    How this happens. A sick traveler, not knowing what they are infected with, decides to travel. Along the way, whomever the person contacts (bodily fluids transferred through spit, cough, kissing, etc..) becomes part of the circle of contacts chain.

    Officials also issued two health alerts about possible disease spread in Goma, the capital and largest city in North Kivu province. For weeks, officials have warned that Ebola could spread in the city.


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    Cases now at 542

    Deaths now at 319

    This remains the DR Congo's 10th epidemic since 1976, and second this year.

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    Only just hitting main news on TV UK....
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    Marburg a similar virus to Ebola is being discovered in BATS in West Africa - normally one would see a Marburg infection from visiting caves in Uganda, or potentially eating an infected Bat (eating dried smoked bats is common in Africa)..

    Bats being tested in Sierra Leone have been showing up infected with the virus.
    “Five Egyptian rousette fruit bats tested positive for active Marburg virus infection. Scientists caught the bats separately at locations in three health districts: Moyamba, Koinadugu and Kono,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which led one of the expeditions that found the infected bats, said in a statement.

    “There have been no reported cases of people sick with Marburg in Sierra Leone, but the virus’s presence in bats means people nearby could be at risk for contracting Marburg virus. Marburg virus is a cousin to Ebola virus that causes a similar, often fatal disease in people.”
    Fruitbats often partially eat fruit which drops to the ground and ground dwelling critters eat the fruit. If it is contaminated with an ebola or marburg virus that new animal can become a host and if it is eaten by a primate (or a human) can convey the virus to the new target.

    The Egyptian fruit bat has been known to carry Marburg. It’s a reservoir, meaning the animals can carry and spread a virus, but it doesn’t make them sick. Bats are reservoirs for many viruses, including Marburg, rabies and middle east respiratory syndrome virus or MERS.

    Three people died in an outbreak of Marburg in Uganda a year ago.

    In 2005, a big outbreak of Marburg in Angola killed 90 percent of the 252 people infected.

    Bats can spread viruses by biting people, but their saliva and guano can also spread the viruses — for instance, when they forage on fruit that people also gather and eat. People can catch viruses when they hunt and eat bats, as well.

    Traditional Shamanistic (read "Witch Doctor" style) treatments consisting of some herbs, chants, smudging and wearing amulets to cast off "evil spirits" has been a cause behind the spreading of the viruses; babies, and children could have been saved when effectively vaccinated by the proven safe Canadian developed vaccination - they could have been saved... Superstition, ignorance and fear of "science and doctors" has continued to contribute to viral spreading in NE DR Congo for instance.

    Education is what is needed, not promulgating "dark ages" beliefs..
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