by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:
Global health authorities are extremely concerned about an outbreak of Bundibugyo virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The death toll has already reached triple digits and new cases have been detected hundreds of miles away from the original outbreak. BVD is a type of Ebola disease, but unlike other types of Ebola there is no effective treatment and there is no cure. The incubation period can range from 2 to 21 days, and once you are infected you will either live or you will die. For those that do not recover, it can be an absolutely excruciating death. Unfortunately, we are being told that the death rate for BVD is somewhere between 30 and 50 percent, and the WHO has already designated the outbreak that we are witnessing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a “public health emergency of international concern”.
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Normally, outbreaks of Ebola are not a huge concern because doctors have highly effective tools that they can use to fight it.
But BVD is an entirely different story.
There is not much that health authorities can do about BVD except to contain it and hope that an outbreak eventually burns out.
In this case, that may not be so easy for a couple of reasons.
First of all, there are already hundreds of cases, and the death toll has now reached the triple digit mark…
At least 100 deaths have been reported in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with more than 390 cases suspected, the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has told the BBC.
Jean Kaseya warned that with no approved drugs or vaccines people should follow public health measures, including at funerals of Ebola victims.
Secondly, this outbreak has already spread hundreds of miles from where it originally started…
Most cases are in Congo’s eastern Ituri province but it has since been found some 600 miles away in the capital, Kinshasa, and in Uganda, meaning officials do not have a clear idea of how far it might have spread.
The cat is out of the bag, and people are starting to freak out.
On Monday, it was being widely reported that a U.S. doctor is among the confirmed cases…
An American doctor in the DR Congo is among those with a confirmed case, the medical missionary group they were working with and the CDC has said.
The individual, who has not been named, will now be taken to Germany for treatment, they told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner.
CBS News also quoted sources as saying that at least six Americans have been exposed to the Ebola virus during the outbreak in the DR Congo.
If authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo would have identified this outbreak very early, they would have had a much better chance of extinguishing it before it became a major problem.
Obviously that did not happen, and now we are being told that we have a “global health emergency” on our hands…
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