In case the Congo didn't have enough troubles already...

…now there’s a new ebola epidemic. So far this one seems to involve a higher percentage of health care workers than previous epidemics.

But now there are more tools to deal with ebola than ever before. There seems to be a vaccination that helps, for example:

…[T]he WHO is continuing its strategy of contact tracing for vaccination, with more than 600 potential contacts already identified. Ghebreyesus said that 260 have already been vaccinated, including some from cities, but that vaccinators are being moved from Guinea and hope to be on the ground today in Bene and Mangina. Healthcare workers have also started to be vaccinated, he added.

Ghebreyesus noted that in addition to vaccines, five people were treated with a monoclonal antibody, and he characterized those who received the treatment as doing “well.”

Good.

“the Democratic Republic of Congo has had Ebola outbreaks before. This is the ninth one. This is a serious one in that it’s not just in a rural area but has reached an urban area, but there is more familiarity with the disease and syndrome than there was in West Africa,” Schuchat said. Also, in the 2014-16 outbreak, research was just beginning to test Ebola vaccines and drug candidates in humans.

Ebola threat: Congo residents REFUSE medical treatment!!!!

and of course…
if feminism is like adobo, adding it makes everything better
than Trump must be
Ebola’s Back—And It Could Be Worse Thanks to Trump

(Whatever It Is) I’m Against It!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmXHLHVTjRc

“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”
Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)

Biowarfare is not new, nor for that matter may be Ebola: a group of United States Navy epidemiologists suggest that Thucydides’ “plague of Athens” (430-427/425BCE) was actually EVD (ebola virus desease).

Tartar army besieging the city of Kaffa (present day Fedosia, Ukraine) in 1346 CE catapulted the bodies of plague victims over the city walls to cause Kaffa’s defenders to abandon the city

but hows this for a fun EBOLA FACT:
“Based on US hospital experiences to date, one Ebola patient will likely generate eight 55-gallon barrels of medical waste per day, making storage, transportation, and disposal of the waste a major challenge for hospitals…”

[Do note that the best place to TEST things, is in a place it occurs naturally… no? that does NOT mean any of this is a test, it just means it follows logically IF state actors act]

in Africa, its hot and dry… which kills ebola
but studies ave shown, that in northern climes, EBV may become aersolized
“[L]ower temperature and humidity than that normally present in sub-Saharan Africa. Ebola virus sensitivity to the high temperatures and humidity…in southern Sudan and northern Zaire may have been a factor limiting aerosol transmission of Ebola virus in the African epidemics E. Johnson, N. Jaax, J. White & P. Jahrling (1995). “Lethal experimental infections of rhesus monkeys by aerosolized Ebola virus.”

and then there is this which i brought up a LONG time ago…
and over and over..

ignore it as usual… but dont think that head in the sand method of understanding will work..

Kanatzhan Alibekov aka Kenneth Alibek, is the former chief scientist and first deputy director of the Soviet-era Biopreparat biowarfare agency. He has written extensively on Soviet-era bioweapons programs, including one to weaponize EBOV that remained active into at least the early 1990s.

It included a research-stage effort to create a recombinant EBOV-smallpox chimera virus, building on earlier work to insert EBOV genes thought to be virulence factors into the vaccinia virus, the genetic structure of which closely resembles the smallpox virus.

The objective, according to Alibekov, was to “produce the form of smallpox called blackpox,” aka hemorrhagic smallpox, the most severe type of that disease. “As a weapon, the Ebolapox would give the hemorrhages and high mortality rate of Ebola virus, which would give you a blackpox, plus the very high contagiousness of smallpox,” Alibek said

Nor are efforts to weaponize EBOV limited to state actors: in 1995, Japanese authorities seized EBOV cultures in a raid on the headquarters of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo, which may earlier have acquired EBOV samples under cover of an October 1992 “medical mission” in Zaire.

In 1998, the MIT-educated neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui was arrested in Ghanzi, Afghanistan, in possession of a detailed plan for a “mass casualty attack” in the United States using an EBOV dirty bomb.

We come up with scenarios that are not discussed publicly…
we have to, we are a research hospital with a space suit bio room (in manhatten) that works on this, and other bugs…

every outbreak is not only something that naturally can happen and get away
but there are LOTS of others who have interest in helping it along
like people carrying fleas, mosquitoes, etc…
and letting them go in the US (or other places)

given i work with people who do DNA splicing and even generating sequences on special sequencing machines… ie. they spit out segments of programmed DNA on order…

the public is woefully behind on how things work
way way way way behind..
[and its by design – beause they certainly are in charge of education and more and its very odd to see the general public having views of things and how to do them that are from early last century, while those in the know do things the new way, and are successful.. jsut dont let the Rubes know… right? whatever you do, dont let them know these ideas are not theirs]

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