#Ebola #USAID #WorldCup #CopaMundial
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?
Trump administration's Ebola facility in Kenya will only treat Americans
Kenyan doctors union threatening a strike over this proposal.
Telling US citizens they can't come home is probably unconstitutional.
Airport screenings are one (thin) layer of protection because of long incubation period.
Ebola in DR Congo: Can a country in conflict contain it? | DW News
War in the DRC could make the outbreak worse.
Symptoms less dramatic, less violent than other strains.
FRANK and incisive comments from the DRC Foreign Minister
Rwanda SHOULD WITHDRAW from the part of the DRC they occupy and their puppet government set up by Rwanda, the M23, has no relevant expertise.
LONG history of Rwanda in the DRC
Rwandan army, 4th largest contributor of UN peacekeepers (?!?!?) under US sanctions
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