There Is A New Ebola Flare Up In The Capital City Of Uganda — Kampala — With 44 Known Contacts Of The Index: A Deceased Nurse.

Within a week of Tangerine 2.0 saying the US would be withdrawing its funding from WHO, we see an entirely new flare up, of the dread Ebola virus — and in a bustling, crowded capital city of about 1.8 million people, no less.

In addition, the fatality occurred among hospital workers — leaving a real possibility of much wider spread.

For now, the focus must be on vaccinating all the host/nurse’s known contacts — and then tracing the contacts, of those contacts. They all ought to be vaccinated, Mr. Kennedy — despite your loony theories. [The NewLink/Merck ZEBOV vaccine (branded now as Ervebo^®) is over 98% effective, in multiple prior outbreaks, in preventing transmission and/or host infection.]

Here’s the latest from CBS — as we all look toward DC, and cringe at the prospect that junk science may cost lives, across the ocean.

…A nurse in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, has died of Ebola, a health official said Thursday, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended in 2023. Diana Atwine, permanent secretary of the health ministry, told reporters the 32-year-old male patient was an employee of Mulago Hospital, the main referral facility in Kampala….

At least 44 contacts of the patient have been listed, including 30 health workers and patients at the hospital in Kampala, according to Uganda’s Ministry of Health….

What a strange, chaotic time this is, in the US life sciences sector, at least. All the result of…. willful ignorance, or worse.

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