WHO learned of potential cases May 5; US CDC said it just heard about it yesterday.
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Ebola outbreak confirmed in Congo and Uganda; 246 suspected cases, 65 deaths
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So we are only 10 days behind knowing that stuff is hitting fans.
Good thing that we don't have travel capabilities that can transmit people faster than that!
Good thing that we don't have travel capabilities that can transmit people faster than that!
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Hantavirus cases at 42. Americans in isolation and CDC is last there after pulling out of WHO because we're cheap? God Bless America, and god help the CDC and the FDA for that matter.
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Always assumed they'd have a shared system with other organisations like CDC keeping each other apprised of things. Or at least a newsletter I guess.
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Well, I'm sure glad the CDC and PHS are on the case, prepared, fully fun-
oh someone is passing me a note
um
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well shit
oh someone is passing me a note
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well shit
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BOB'S EMERGENT FILOVIRUS WEBRING
VISIT PREVIOUS SITE VISIT NEXT SITE
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Uganda run by a dictator and his sociopathic son and the DRC and South Sudan both home to multiple wars. Yeah this could get bad fast.
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Don't worry, I'm sure the US CDC will be quick to send aid to help with this outbr-
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Hunh. Weird how we “just found out”. I guess that a major first world power with outposts in country has zero awareness of local happenings. Perhaps the phones were out.
We all really need to make getting these folks out of office and their appointments a high priority. All of us. Show up and vote.
We all really need to make getting these folks out of office and their appointments a high priority. All of us. Show up and vote.
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Hey billionaires, I hear Congo and Uganda are great sites for you to go and check out in person for potential data center builds.
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Humans: Ha, hantavirus doesn’t scare us!
Nature: ok, how about some ebolavirus?
Nature: ok, how about some ebolavirus?
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I get your point but "meh" is a bit callous, no?
Just because an outbreak doesn't reach the mainland US doesn't mean it's irrelevant. 65 deaths is just the start.
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Tell that to the 28,616 people killed across 10 countries in 2013-2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ebola_outbreaks
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The OP to this response fits in well with the Elon Musk DOGE school of “bad things can’t happen here if we pull support for other nations”
Every Tesla purchase makes him less accountable though. Buy two to save the earth, since those jet turbine generators powering Grok are expensive to run.
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Incubation time is 2-21 days per the CDC. That is enough time to reach every single city on Earth.
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MilanKraft
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Not trying to be a jag but it seems flippancy and underestimation are your super-powers.
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Let's be fair here, the government of the DRC is heavily authoritarian and cares little about the populace that it oppresses beyond their ability to extract resources to enrich the oppressors. It does not surprise me in the slightest that it took this long for Africa CDC to be made aware.
I wish the people of the DRC the best and hope this outbreak is contained quickly, effectively, and considering the DRC, humanely.
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Those things you say are true.
We are talking about an agency engaged in disease surveillance in order to be proactive, given the worldwide danger of Ebola outbreaks.
My question was specifically why they had not surveilled anything significant events in the past 10 days.
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$500,000? That's it!?
I know purchasing power will make it go further and that there are other funding source. But, that's really not much.
I know purchasing power will make it go further and that there are other funding source. But, that's really not much.
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It's easy to forget just how far $500,000 dollars can go outside of the US.
It's a huge amount of money for medical supplies and drugs in most countries.
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araczynski
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that's like 5 epi pens? oh, outside, yeah, probably 289,000 epi pens then.
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Whoa, y'all ain't cheap, that ballroom gonna cost close to a billion dollars. It's all about effective use of tax dollars
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My conspiracy theory is that everything that's happened after 2013 is because Tom Clancy died and God let him take over the writing for reality.
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