That makes six remote rugged provinces with serious outbreaks inside the DRC. [Last month, Uganda arrested its last known cluster. But flare ups there are likely as well — since contact tracing was very spotty in the early months.]
This outbreak is easily 1,000 times worse than it would have been with prompt identification (via the vanished USAID), and rigorous contact tracings. Here’s where we stand now — with likely a long and lethal outbreak yet ahead, per The [UK] Guardian:
…The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread to a sixth province, officials have said, a day after the head of the World Health Organization said the outbreak was on track to surpass the deadliest in history, which erupted more than a decade ago and killed more than 11,000 people.
Jean Kaseya, the director general of Africa CDC, said a death had been recorded in the previously unaffected Bas-Uele province. Kaseya said the man had travelled from Isiro, in Haut-Uele province, to Buta, the capital of Bas-Uele, where he died.
There are no approved vaccines or treatments for the rare Bundibugyo virus responsible for the current outbreak, which has killed more than 2,100 people out of more than 4,500 cases, according to the latest government figures….
Now you know. Off grid to Northern Cali, in two days — for the Half-Iron weekend — then on to the Rockies, for another week. Smile…. then to the South of France, and Florence, Italy, in about three weeks — for a month.
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