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Ebola outbreak in Northeast DRC

ShivaFan

Satyameva Jayate
Premium Member
Ebola doesn't go away. It is cyclical, it starts every two or three years during the early summer in May, but the gap between outbreaks is declining and will probably soon be every summer and comes first somewhere along the Congo river. Each time we are told Ebola is has been under control, within the next two year cycle, now soon every year, it returns - new strains with newer names often based on regions, each time the strain changes a bit in nature - we are told the particular ebola strain is a bit weaker, which doesn't mean this is good news, in fact it makes it much more dangerous as it can spread wider before those infected die and as others who carry it flee the area to seek refuge elsewhere.

The only effective control has been to isolate the impacted area to prevent carriers from fleeing and spreading it, or those African nations which then enforce very strong, restrictive, border controls. Vaccines have not been effective. But right now the French are sending in teams with an experimental vaccine into northern DRC in Africa, because just as predicted but not emphasized in the media, ebola has returned to the Congo region this month. There is concern that ebola will infect some Westerner or other venue and be brought into France.

The outbreak is in the northeastern Bas Uele province around and including Likati near the northern border of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Likati River and is in a "conflict zone" with about 1 million people spread out in camps, and is about 500 kilometers north of Kisangani, a city of a population of 1.6 million.

The map shown is outdated information with old numbers:

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In the "conflict zone", rape of women is used as a weapon. Sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV - but includes ebola which can also spread by means of sexual transmission - are rampant.

Starting in 2014 a large group of Islamic extremist militants originally rooted in a rebel movement to overthrow Uganda’s government and replace it with an Islamist fundamentalist state, but forced to re-locate over the border into DRC, have entered into the "conflict zone" and has been carrying out murders of local people, far from the attention of most of the world’s major media.

The Beni area of the DRC has seen a huge increase of Islamic "militants" in the northeast area of the DRC, now it is in the areas of the ebola outbreaks.

I predict ebola will breakout among the Islamist terrorist and "militants" and spread to Somalia, Yemen, to Libya and it will reach Syria. It is only a matter of time now. The Saudis need to use great care to prevent it from entering.

If it enters India and or Pakistan, all hell will break lose in unimaginable disaster.

It is clear, there is a link between fruit bats, other types of bats and bat droppings, and various types of monkey, and "bush meat" and transmission to humans. Other animals likely can carry ebola, such as marmots, squirrels, "prairie dogs", others including the fear other flying type animals and not just bats. How these animals become infected themselves, it is not clear. But there is IMHO something out there along the Congo river and it's many associated smaller rivers. And what that is, probably doesn't even need animal to human transmission.
 
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