Russia: info dark without full clinical transparency
MEASLES
Progress about Ebola in Africa. Less deadly variant harder to detect so crossed 3 borders but better healthcare system closed CDC offices in Africa reduces early warning
I will not stay up half the night binge watching Siberian plague videos. I will not stay up half the night binge watching Siberian plague videos. I will not stay up half the night binge watching Siberian plague videos.
RantWoman comments:
Multiple commentators assume the lab where Darya Shipalova (Sp?) died is a fully functional Biosafety Level 3 lab. It's Russia. What if PPE supplies are inadequate? What if not every lab worker is vaccinated against the organisms they are working on? What is the supply of prophylactic antibiotics is inadequate.
RantWoman gets the reasons--low transmissibility, a fragile organism, the 6 ft or less distance for inhalable droplets to spread--that people are not too worried about standard plague. RantWoman just does not buy that everything is as one hopes it should be.
Multiple commentators also say that the level of quarantine is inconsistent with ordinary plague. What if Russia is actually, possibly after many lapses, doing something right about trying to contain problems?
Pyotr Kurzin has historical family ties to Irkutsk. Analysis of what Russia is saying and what it is not saying. comment about info coming and going from Russian and local media
RantWoman has compiled several videos. The first 3-4 hit all the main points on RantWoman's mind:
--We just don't know...
--regular pneumonic plague is not easily transmissible.
--the significance of key responses is unclear.
Easy for RantWoman woman to go to
--infection control measures sloppy?
--Gee Russia is too busy bombing Ukrainian civilian infrastructure and trying to dramatically increase th size of the usual fall military mobilization.
Oh yes, and RFKjr, DOGE, and President #StableGenius imposed harsh cuts at the CDC as well as $750M of grant funds for state emergency preparedness funds
The proposed US site in Kenya is supposed to be staff ed by people with no experience dealing with Ebola.
LOTS of misinformation about MEASLES. Importance of herd immunity. People admitted to hospital with measles have pneumonia. Measles is PREVENTABLE with vaccination.
And as a side note:
Diphtheria, SCARY, Not Ebola and PREVENTABLE with vaccination
Anyone who has been in the DRC affected areas in the last 21 days and who is already home should monitor symptoms. As with ANY possible hemorrhagic fever, do not just go to a walk in facility. Call your clinic or the CDC hotline for guidance.
spillover event (animal to human transmission) vs crossover event (human to human)
I keep sitting with two questions:
Where are the mining companies that operate in the DRC? Surely Ebola is bad for business and I naively think it would be EXCELLENT if they can pitch in for supplies and education. I find it disgusting to see lots of comments basically throwing up people's hands because public health is hard because of mining. If mining contracts are worth anything, shouldn't there be parallel investment in local public health?
Also, why send people from the US to Kenya rather than home to all the supposedly top notch facilities there are in te US? I saw one report that the President has ordered the US military to build a facility able to handle 50 people and to build it within 7 days. What's that about? Are there people doing covert ops that need protection? and why Kenya? What does Kenya get out of the deal?
Are the mining companies operating in the area being asked to contribute to public health efforts to fight they epidemic?
Presumably Ebola outbreaks are bad for business, and I would hope the companies operating in the Congo can step up i culturally insightful ways.
Blistering words from someone with reason to know!
As if the consequences of the US pulling out of the World Health Organization were not already embarrassing enough,
It is widely reported in reputable outlets that PResident #StableGenius has prohibited experts still working from the US government from talking directly with WHO personnel. Now such conversations are supposed to pass up the chain of command through Secretary of HHS Kennedy. What could possibly go wrong with that???
And it gets worse: Now Bloomberg is reporting that #BrainwormBob is looking for VOLUNTEERS to go to airports and help screen people for Ebola symptoms. Of course, both competent professionals and the travelling public will find this approach ever so reassuring. Perhaps Secretary Kennedy could be first in line to volunteer followed by the people from ICE already getting paid?
Surge equipment and supplies even when conditions are very difficult.
Bats bite the sweetest fruit and then kids pick up the contaminated fruit. DON'T eat fruit that has been bitten by a bat.
Talking Ebola at bedtime.
Ebola is a Disease of compassion
Synopsis:
Ebola in Africa is probably going to get worse
US could help by having been prepared and being able to surge in relevant supplies but current administration has squandered leadership, undermined relationships.
Risk low but not Zero in the US: travel bans are partly performative. We only roll the dice so many times before they come up snake eyes.
Revisiting #COVID lockdowns may or may not be the most soothing way to duck the current plague of plagues, but here we are, counting the expected trickle of new #hantavirus cases and coming to grips with a substantial #Ebola outbreak which apparently has been simmering for a while in the Democratic Republic of Congo and now Uganda.
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