Ebola has returned to Eastern Congo

[canada-man]

just sayin.....







At least 80 deaths have been reported in Congo's new Ebola disease outbreak in the eastern Ituri province, authorities said, as health workers raced on Saturday to intensify screening and contact tracing to contain the disease.

Officials first announced the outbreak on Friday, with 65 deaths and 246 suspected cases.

Meanwhile, Associated Press journalists in Ituri's capital, Bunia, interviewed locals who recounted their fears and spoke about the constant burials.


"Every day, people are dying ... and this has been going on for about a week. In a single day, we bury two, three or even more people," said Jean Marc Asimwe, a resident of Bunia. "At this point, we don't really know what kind of disease it is."

Congolese Health Minister Samuel Roger Kamba said late Friday that there have been eight laboratory-confirmed cases, among them four deaths.


Test results confirmed the Bundibugyo virus, a variant of the disease that has been less prominent in Congo's past outbreaks. This is Congo's 17th outbreak since Ebola first emerged in the country in 1976.

Ebola is highly contagious and can be contracted through bodily fluids such as vomit, blood or semen. The disease it causes is rare but severe and often fatal.

The suspected index case in the latest outbreak is a nurse who died at a hospital in Bunia, Kamba said, adding the case dates back three weeks to April 24.

The health minister did not say whether samples from the nurse were tested, but he added that the person presented symptoms suggestive of Ebola.

Outbreak spreads to neighbouring Uganda
Uganda confirmed on Friday an Ebola case that authorities said was "imported" from Congo. The person died at the Kibuli Muslim Hospital in Uganda's capital, Kampala, on May 14.

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention had said it is concerned about the risk of further spread due to the proximity of affected areas to Uganda and South Sudan.

The body of the patient who died in Kampala was later taken back to Congo, and no other local case has been confirmed, Uganda's Health Ministry said.

Ebola outbreak in Congo shows signs of containment, WHO says
Congo's health ministry declares new Ebola outbreak
On Saturday, people were being screened at the entrance of the Kibuli Muslim Hospital.

Ismail Kigongo, who resides in Kampala, said the new outbreak reminded him of his father, whom he lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. "I really get scared because I remember burying my father without looking at his body," he said.

Kenya, Uganda's neighbour, said on Saturday that there is only a "moderate risk of importation" of the Ebola virus due to regional travel. Kenya's government said it has formed an Ebola preparedness team and strengthened surveillance at all points of entry.

Logistical challenges
Congo has experience in managing Ebola outbreaks but often faces logistical challenges to get expertise and supplies to affected regions.

As Africa's second-largest country by land area, Congo's provinces are far from one another and mostly battling conflict. Ituri, for instance, is about 1,000 kilometres from the nation's capital, Kinshasa, and is ravaged by violence from ISIS-backed militants.

The disease is so far confirmed in three health zones in Ituri province, including Bunia, as well as in Rwampara and Mongwalu, where the outbreak is concentrated.

Only 13 blood samples have been tested at the National Institute of Biomedical Research, eight returning positive with the Bundibugyo strain. The remaining five could not be analyzed due to an insufficient volume of samples, the health minister said.



In Bunia, businesses and regular activities at public places appeared to be normal on Friday.

Resident Adeline Awekonimungu said she hopes the outbreak is quickly contained.

"My recommendation is that the government take this matter seriously and that it takes charge of the hospitals so that this matter can be brought under control," she said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/congo-ebola-outbreak-9.7202245

 

[canada-man]

from Grok



why does Ebola outbreaks keep occurring in Africa?



Ebola outbreaks recur in Africa primarily because the virus is zoonotic (animal-borne) with a natural reservoir in the region, combined with environmental, social, and infrastructural factors that enable spillover into humans and subsequent spread.

Natural Reservoir and Spillover

Fruit bats (family Pteropodidae, such as hammer-headed, Franquet's epauletted, and little collared fruit bats) are widely believed to be the primary natural reservoir for orthoebolaviruses. These bats can carry the virus without severe symptoms. Humans typically get infected through direct contact with infected bats or other animals (like chimpanzees, gorillas, monkeys, forest antelope, or porcupines) via blood, bodily fluids, or bushmeat hunting/butchering/handling.


The virus is endemic in parts of Central and West Africa, especially in or near tropical rainforests (notably the Democratic Republic of the Congo/DRC, which has had the most outbreaks). Once in the human population, it spreads person-to-person through bodily fluids, contaminated surfaces, or unsafe burial practices.

Environmental and Human Factors Driving Recurrence

• Deforestation and habitat disruption: Recent forest loss and fragmentation (especially dense closed-canopy forests) strongly correlate with outbreaks, often within the previous 1–2 years. This increases human-wildlife contact by pushing bats toward human areas, expanding bushmeat hunting, and altering ecosystems.
• Bushmeat practices: Hunting, butchering, and consuming wild animals (including bats and primates) in affected regions provides a direct transmission route.
• Geography and ecology: Outbreaks cluster in equatorial rainforests where reservoir hosts live. Population growth, mining, logging, and roads further encroach on these areas.

Social and Health System Challenges

Outbreaks often start in remote rural areas but can escalate due to:

• Weak or damaged healthcare infrastructure, poor surveillance, and delayed detection (especially in conflict zones or post-conflict countries).
• Distrust in government/health authorities, sometimes leading to attacks on responders or avoidance of care.
• Cultural practices (e.g., traditional burials involving close contact with bodies).
• Poverty, population mobility, and conflict (e.g., in eastern DRC), which hinder containment.

West Africa had no prior experience with Ebola before 2014, leading to slower initial responses compared to Central African countries familiar with it. Some outbreaks may also involve "flare-ups" from viral persistence in survivors (e.g., in semen or other sites).

Historical Context

Ebola was first identified in 1976 (near the Ebola River in what is now DRC). Since then, dozens of outbreaks have occurred, mostly in Central/West Africa, with varying strains (e.g., Zaire/Ebola virus, Sudan virus, Bundibugyo virus). Most are contained quickly in rural settings, but larger ones (like 2014–2016 in West Africa, with >28,000 cases) explode under the right conditions.


Eradication is unrealistic because the virus persists in wildlife reservoirs. Prevention focuses on reducing human-animal contact (e.g., avoiding bushmeat, safe handling), early surveillance, vaccines (available for some strains), and rapid response. Improved forest conservation, public education, and stronger health systems in high-risk areas can reduce frequency and severity.


In short, it's a combination of an ecologically entrenched virus in bat populations + increasing human encroachment + vulnerabilities in affected regions. Outbreaks are sporadic but expected to continue without addressing these root drivers.

 

[Hephaestus]

just sayin.....







At least 80 deaths have been reported in Congo's new Ebola disease outbreak in the eastern Ituri province, authorities said, as health workers raced on Saturday to intensify screening and contact tracing to contain the disease.

Officials first announced the outbreak on Friday, with 65 deaths and 246 suspected cases.

Meanwhile, Associated Press journalists in Ituri's capital, Bunia, interviewed locals who recounted their fears and spoke about the constant burials.


"Every day, people are dying ... and this has been going on for about a week. In a single day, we bury two, three or even more people," said Jean Marc Asimwe, a resident of Bunia. "At this point, we don't really know what kind of disease it is."

Congolese Health Minister Samuel Roger Kamba said late Friday that there have been eight laboratory-confirmed cases, among them four deaths.


Test results confirmed the Bundibugyo virus, a variant of the disease that has been less prominent in Congo's past outbreaks. This is Congo's 17th outbreak since Ebola first emerged in the country in 1976.

Ebola is highly contagious and can be contracted through bodily fluids such as vomit, blood or semen. The disease it causes is rare but severe and often fatal.

The suspected index case in the latest outbreak is a nurse who died at a hospital in Bunia, Kamba said, adding the case dates back three weeks to April 24.

The health minister did not say whether samples from the nurse were tested, but he added that the person presented symptoms suggestive of Ebola.

Outbreak spreads to neighbouring Uganda
Uganda confirmed on Friday an Ebola case that authorities said was "imported" from Congo. The person died at the Kibuli Muslim Hospital in Uganda's capital, Kampala, on May 14.

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention had said it is concerned about the risk of further spread due to the proximity of affected areas to Uganda and South Sudan.

The body of the patient who died in Kampala was later taken back to Congo, and no other local case has been confirmed, Uganda's Health Ministry said.

Ebola outbreak in Congo shows signs of containment, WHO says
Congo's health ministry declares new Ebola outbreak
On Saturday, people were being screened at the entrance of the Kibuli Muslim Hospital.

Ismail Kigongo, who resides in Kampala, said the new outbreak reminded him of his father, whom he lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. "I really get scared because I remember burying my father without looking at his body," he said.

Kenya, Uganda's neighbour, said on Saturday that there is only a "moderate risk of importation" of the Ebola virus due to regional travel. Kenya's government said it has formed an Ebola preparedness team and strengthened surveillance at all points of entry.

Logistical challenges
Congo has experience in managing Ebola outbreaks but often faces logistical challenges to get expertise and supplies to affected regions.

As Africa's second-largest country by land area, Congo's provinces are far from one another and mostly battling conflict. Ituri, for instance, is about 1,000 kilometres from the nation's capital, Kinshasa, and is ravaged by violence from ISIS-backed militants.

The disease is so far confirmed in three health zones in Ituri province, including Bunia, as well as in Rwampara and Mongwalu, where the outbreak is concentrated.

Only 13 blood samples have been tested at the National Institute of Biomedical Research, eight returning positive with the Bundibugyo strain. The remaining five could not be analyzed due to an insufficient volume of samples, the health minister said.



In Bunia, businesses and regular activities at public places appeared to be normal on Friday.

Resident Adeline Awekonimungu said she hopes the outbreak is quickly contained.

"My recommendation is that the government take this matter seriously and that it takes charge of the hospitals so that this matter can be brought under control," she said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/congo-ebola-outbreak-9.7202245

Sad they don't have a vaccine for it. I remember it from a old movie with Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman

 

[xmontrealer]

Sad they don't have a vaccine for it. I remember it from a old movie with Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman

And there won't be, if Trump and RFK Jr. have anything to say about it.

There is no real financial incentive for pharmaceutical companies to develop a vaccine for Ebola, even if an mRNA vaccine might be the answer.

Not to mention RFK Jr's fight against vaccines in general, and mRNA vaccines in particular.

That might, just might, change if Ebola becomes an issue in North America.

 

[southpaw]

This virus is racist.

 

[Carpa]

Sad they don't have a vaccine for it. I remember it from a old movie with Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman

That was Outbreak, very good movie

 

[xmontrealer]

copied and pasted from a New Yorker magazine article first published in August, 2014


After Ebola
By Michael Specter
August 1, 2014

Photograph by Samuel Aranda/The New York Times/Redux.

Since September 11, 2001, Americans have had to adjust to an unsettling truth: as the world becomes smaller and easier to traverse, it also becomes more dangerous and difficult to control. There are simply not enough fingers to put in all the dikes. So we do our best: At airport security, we take off our shoes and dutifully toss water bottles into the trash. On buses and in the subway, we are often reminded, sensibly enough, that if we see something we should say something.

But as the world’s worst Ebola epidemic yet spreads through western Africa, it is important to remember that we won’t always see something. “The single biggest threat to man’s continued dominance on this planet is the virus,” the Nobel Prize-winning biologist Joshua Lederberg once wrote. Few epidemiologists would disagree. There is no bomb, no poison, no plan of attack with the potential to do as much damage.

It doesn’t take much effort to see that. Smallpox killed up to half a billion people in the twentieth century alone, before its eradication, in the nineteen-seventies. (That’s why it was so terrifying to learn, last month, that vials full of smallpox, alive and forgotten, had been lying for decades in the refrigerators of a former N.I.H. laboratory.) The global public-health system needs to become far more vigilant in detecting new viruses before they spread. That will require patience, time, and money—an unlikely combination at best.

On Thursday morning, the President of Sierra Leone cancelled a planned visit to the United States, declared a national health emergency, and ordered the Army to quarantine people in the worst-affected areas. The Liberian government has shuttered the country’s schools and placed most public employees on a thirty-day leave. The Peace Corps this week pulled three hundred and forty volunteers out of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.

As many as ninety per cent of those infected with Ebola will die. There is no cure or treatment. There are several vaccines under development; in early animal tests, more than one has shown promise. But it will be years before they are ready for humans. Until then, if you get Ebola, you are most likely done for. The virus can eat away at capillaries and blood vessels, causing you to drown in your own blood. As David Quammen wrote in “Spillover,” the definitive book about the origin and evolution of human epidemics, “Advisory: If your husband catches an Ebola virus, give him food and water and love and maybe prayers but keep your distance, wait patiently, hope for the best—and, if he dies, don’t clean out his bowels by hand. Better to step back, blow a kiss, and burn the hut.”

Still, Ebola’s more prosaic symptoms—abdominal and muscle pain, fever, headache, sore throat, nausea, and vomiting—also apply to at least a dozen other conditions. Could an infected airline passenger make it to the United States? Absolutely. But in this country every doctor and nurse in every clinic and hospital uses gowns, latex gloves, masks, and disinfectants. Those precautions are rarely available in the parts of Africa where the epidemic has been most severe. Ebola is contagious only when it is symptomatic, and by that time people are almost invariably too sick to travel. (Patrick Sawyer, the only American to die so far in this outbreak, collapsed after a flight from Liberia to Lagos. He was planning to fly next to Minnesota. He never got on that plane.)

“I wouldn’t be worried to sit next to someone with the Ebola virus on the Tube, as long as they don’t vomit on you or something,” Peter Piot told Agence France-Presse this week. Piot, the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, was one of the two people who, in 1976, discovered Ebola. He then ran the United Nations' AIDS program for more than a decade. “This is an infection that requires very close contact,” he said.

Ebola is truly deadly, but the many lurid headlines predicting a global pandemic miss a central point. In its epidemic reach, Ebola is often compared with H.I.V. But they are nothing alike. H.I.V. has killed at least thirty million people, mostly by spreading quietly, burrowing into the cells it infects, and then, at times, lurking for years before destroying the immune system of its host. Ebola’s incubation period is between two and twenty-one days long. The virus kills rapidly. There is nothing insidious about it.

Ebola won’t kill us all, but something else might. Like everything living on Earth, viruses must evolve to survive. That is why avian influenza has provoked so much anxiety; it has not yet mutated into an infection that can spread easily. Maybe it never will, but it could happen tomorrow. A pandemic is like an earthquake that we expect but cannot quite predict. As Quammen puts it, every emerging virus “is like a sweepstakes ticket, bought by the pathogen, for the prize of a new and more grandiose existence. It’s a long-shot chance to transcend the dead end. To go where it hasn’t gone and be what it hasn’t been. Sometimes the bettor wins big.”

He’s right, of course, and it is long past time to develop a system that can easily monitor that process. If we don’t, the next pandemic could make Ebola look weak.

Michael Specter is a staff writer at The New Yorker and an adjunct professor of bioengineering at Stanford University.

 

[canada-man]

Global scramble to contain new Ebola outbreak as US moves to limit entry from virus-hit region



An international effort is underway to contain an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda that has infected hundreds of people and caused dozens of suspected deaths, with the United States triggering a public health law to limit entry from the affected region.

On Sunday, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola epidemic a “public health emergency of international concern.” The latest outbreak does not yet meet the criteria of a “pandemic emergency,” but WHO warned the high positivity rate and increasing number of cases and deaths across health zones point toward “a potentially much larger outbreak than what is currently being detected and reported.”

More than 100 suspected deaths have been linked to the outbreak in the DRC, the director-general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Jean Kaseya, told CNN on Monday.


Global scramble to contain new Ebola outbreak as US moves to limit entry from virus-hit region | CNN

 

[geezerbuter]

What did FDA brain work have to say?

 

[Driller69]

Ban all flights from Africa, not like they send their best here anyways. Kill two birds with one stone.

 

[chodge]

Ban all flights from Africa, not like they send their best here anyways. Kill two birds with one stone.

 

[southpaw]

Ban all flights from Africa, not like they send their best here anyways. Kill two birds with one stone.

That is their best.

 

[canada-man]

Moderna Began Developing a Bundibugyo Ebola mRNA “Vaccine” Just 4 Months Before WHO Declared a Global Emergency



by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Just a few months ago (January 2026), Bill Gates’ vaccine cartel CEPI gave Moderna and University of Oxford $26.7 million to begin developing Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV) mRNA and viral vector injections. These are multivalent filovirus “vaccine” platforms, meaning they are designed to target multiple Ebola viruses and related filoviruses simultaneously — including Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV).

Four months later (today), the WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) over a Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The same playbook always repeats:

Develop “vaccine” → Fearmonger new outbreak → Declare emergency → Gain power & control → push “vaccine” as only solution.

Moderna Began Developing a Bundibugyo Ebola mRNA “Vaccine” Just 4 Months Before WHO Declared a Global Emergency

 

[xmontrealer]

Moderna Began Developing a Bundibugyo Ebola mRNA “Vaccine” Just 4 Months Before WHO Declared a Global Emergency



by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Just a few months ago (January 2026), Bill Gates’ vaccine cartel CEPI gave Moderna and University of Oxford $26.7 million to begin developing Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV) mRNA and viral vector injections. These are multivalent filovirus “vaccine” platforms, meaning they are designed to target multiple Ebola viruses and related filoviruses simultaneously — including Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV).

Four months later (today), the WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) over a Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The same playbook always repeats:

Develop “vaccine” → Fearmonger new outbreak → Declare emergency → Gain power & control → push “vaccine” as only solution.

Moderna Began Developing a Bundibugyo Ebola mRNA “Vaccine” Just 4 Months Before WHO Declared a Global Emergency

Heaven forbid an effective vaccine is developed against Ebola.

How could we stand the reductions in deaths in Africa, or even North America as unlikely as that may be.

Hey, hardly any whites are affected to date...

Sarcasm intended!

 

[Frankfooter]

Moderna Began Developing a Bundibugyo Ebola mRNA “Vaccine” Just 4 Months Before WHO Declared a Global Emergency

'Cuz nobody had ever heard about Ebola before the latest outbreak.
Clearly there is a conspiracy going on.

 

[Troubadour121]

They're finding more in the farms in North West close to Vancouver. The area with the biggest prevalence is the Palouse region, which includes parts of eastern Washington and north-central Idaho in the Pacific Northwest.

 

[canada-man]

The federal government is putting new border measures in place to prevent Ebola cases from spreading to Canada, as the number of cases continues to rise in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and South Sudan.

Starting this week, people travelling from the affected regions will have to self-isolate for 21 days. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is also pausing final decisions on several immigration applications.

In a technical briefing to reporters ahead of a press conference by the health and immigration ministers, government officials said new measures are being implemented as of Saturday under the Quarantine Act.

The officials said the health risk to Canada is “currently considered low,” and that no travel-related cases have been reported.

Starting May 30, any Canadian citizens, permanent residents, individuals registered under the Indian Act, and foreign nationals who have been in the affected countries in the last three weeks will still be allowed to enter Canada, but they must undergo a health assessment upon arrival and comply with public health measures.

Ebola: Canada to implement new border measures amid outbreak

 

[Frankfooter]

trump cut USAID

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2059313594269843501

 

[OGdub]

'Cuz nobody had ever heard about Ebola before the latest outbreak.
Clearly there is a conspiracy going on.

That's right, everyone knows vaccines since the dawn of time have been a government conspiracy especially vaccines to sickness and disease that kept the average life expectancy at 35 before the advent of modern science that lets people live long enough to believe this kind of stuff

 

[canada-man]

Ebola fears spark probe into infected monkey bite at Montana research lab



Montana Republicans have called for an urgent investigation into reports a lab worker was bitten by a monkey infected with a deadly strain of Ebola.

Senator Tim Sheehy said this month he called for Montana's Inspector General to open a probe into the Rocky Mountain Lab, a government research laboratory focusing on infectious diseases.

According to a letter Sheehy sent to officials, a worker at the laboratory was bitten through their protective equipment by a monkey infected with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, a strain of Ebola, in November 2025.


The employee, who has not been publicly identified, was treated following the monkey attack but did not contract the lethal illness, and officials said they soon returned back to work.

However, conservative firebrand influencer Laura Loomer alleged that the incident represented a national security scandal, suggesting that alleged safety lapses at the lab may have been a purposeful attempt to 'destroy President Trump's legacy.'

Loomer, a close Trump ally, also alleged on X that Vincent Munster, Chief of the Virus Ecology Unit at the lab, caused the incident by 'smuggling these pathogens into America.'

'Was this radical anti-Trumper plotting to unleash a new virus in America to sabotage the legacy of President Donald Trump?' Loomer said.

Sheehy reshared Loomer's remarks to his X account as he said his office was 'looking into these allegations', and said 'if they are accurate, this is a massive breach of trust with the people of Montana.'

Ebola fears spark probe into infected monkey bite at Montana research lab | Daily Mail Online