by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:
Hundreds of people have been dropping dead from a horrifying hemorrhagic disease in central Africa. We are being told that this isn’t the Zaire strain, which is the most common form of Ebola. Instead, authorities are telling us that this outbreak is being caused by the very rare Bundibugyo virus. Unlike the Zaire strain, there is no cure for the Bundibugyo virus. If you get infected, your odds of dying are somewhere between 25 and 50 percent. This is an extremely high death rate, but so far global health authorities have been able to keep everyone calm. They are assuring us that the threat outside of Africa is very low, and most people seem to be buying that story.
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But is it accurate?
The International Rescue Committee is claiming that the Ebola outbreak is “likely far worse” than the official numbers suggest…
The Ebola outbreak surging in multiple African countries is ‘likely far worse’ than official reports make it seem, health experts have warned.
New York-based aid group the International Rescue Committee (IRC) warned Monday that response efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the epicenter of an ongoing Ebola outbreak, are struggling due to delayed detection and low levels of contact tracing.
Of course the “official numbers” have been fluctuating all over the place.
On Tuesday, the WHO released figures that were far lower than they had previously been giving us…
The United Nations’ World Health Organization significantly scaled back on Tuesday the number of suspected Ebola cases in central Africa, lowering it to 116 from more than 900, with 330 total cases confirmed.
The WHO said that as of May 31, there were 116 suspected cases of the deadly virus registered in Democratic Republic of Congo — a massive reduction from the 906 that had been on the books late last week.
If the WHO has determined that this outbreak is actually much less severe than originally thought, that would be great news.
But if they are simply trying to keep everyone calm by releasing smaller numbers, that would not be good at all.
One expert is warning that the statistics that are being fed to the public are simply not telling us the whole story…
“The true scale of this Ebola outbreak is likely far worse than official figures suggest,” Rachel Howard, Senior Technical Emergency Health Advisor at the IRC, said.
“When four out of five contacts are not being traced, it becomes incredibly difficult to contain the outbreak or even understand its true scale. We’re especially concerned about the virus spreading to other countries like Burundi or South Sudan,” Ms Howard added.
We do know that large numbers of people have been dying in local hospitals.
And we also know that the Trump administration is so concerned about this virus that they are absolutely refusing to allow any U.S. citizens that get infected to be treated on U.S. soil…
The Trump administration said it “cannot and will not allow” any cases to enter the U.S. That’s a departure from the U.S. handling of the Ebola outbreak in 2014, when several infected American patients were treated on U.S. soil.
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