Interesting Theory

Using bioweapons to drive the migrant hoard into Europe and the US?? WHO and CDC are usually right on these outbreaks, but this one snuck up on them and could have spread already to other countries. Containment is key in the fight against Ebola.

http:// rense.com/general96/dr-congo-hid-its-ebola-outbreak-until-now.htmlDRC outbreak update

• 1st confirmed death, January 2018

Date: Thu 10 May 2018 11:28 AM

Source: Reuters [edited]

https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN1IB14B-OZATP

Cases of hemorrhagic fever were reported in an area of Congo that is facing an Ebola epidemic as far back as December [2017] and the 1st deaths were reported in January [2018], a spokesman for the World Health Organization said [Thu 10 May 2018], as 4 new suspected cases surfaced. …

An interval of as long as 5 months since the 1st infection would give the virus time potentially to have infected many people before action was taken to contain it.

"According to our early information, the cases have been reported since December and the 1st deaths were reported in January [2018], but the link between the deaths and the epidemic has not yet been established," WHO Congo spokesman Eugene Kabambi told Reuters.

The health ministry said on [Thu 9 May 2018] it had dispatched a team of 12 experts to the area to try to trace new contacts of the disease, identify the epicenter and all affected villages and provide resources.

The epidemic so far appears to be centered around the village of Ikoko Impenge, near the town of Bikoro, where local health officials had reported 21 patients showing signs of hemorrhagic fever, of whom all but 4 of whom had died. …

[Byline: Patient Ligodi]

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