Quote:An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say.



The interval between the onset of symptoms – which include fever, vomiting and internal bleeding – and death has been 48 hours in most cases and “that’s what’s really worrying,” said Serge Ngalebato, medical director of Bikoro Hospital, a regional monitoring center.


These “hemorrhagic fever” symptoms are commonly linked to known deadly viruses, such as Ebola, dengue, Marburg and yellow fever, but researchers have ruled these out based on tests of more than a dozen samples collected so far.


The latest disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo began on Jan. 21, with 419 cases recorded and 53 deaths.

The outbreak began in the village of Boloko after three children ate a bat and died within 48 hours, the Africa office of the World Health Organization said Monday.

After the second outbreak of the mystery disease began in the village of Bomate on Feb. 9, samples from 13 cases were sent to the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, for testing, the WHO said. All samples were negative for common hemorrhagic fever diseases, although some tested positive for malaria.

Quote:President Archer agreed to address the country’s resolve and recovery in the face of SPARS. Top risk communication advisors from the CDC, FDA, NIH, and SAMHSA conferred as a group about how best to frame the President’s remarks. The group vigorously debated whether it was appropriate for the President to acknowledge the sacrifice that vaccine recipients had made on behalf of their communities or to console them in their grief over that sacrifice.

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Nearing the end of 2027, reports of new neurological symptoms began to emerge. After showing no adverse side effects for nearly a year, several vaccine recipients slowly began to experience symptoms such as blurry vision, headaches, and numbness in their extremities.

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“Communities around the country went through what some felt was a harrowing public health emergency, only later to confront the possibility, however slim, that the medicine we promised would help them may in fact be hurting them.”

(02-26-2025, 04:35 AM)OmegaLogos Wrote: Explanation: Wash your hands ok ...

Personal Disclosure: And wear your hazmat suit eh!

A novel and new lethal haemorragic virus is not to be triffled with!

And no need to kvetch about vaxxines at all ... none exist as yet for this strain!

(02-26-2025, 04:46 AM)Bally002 Wrote:

(02-26-2025, 04:35 AM)OmegaLogos Wrote: Explanation: Wash your hands ok ...

Personal Disclosure: And wear your hazmat suit eh!

A novel and new lethal haemorragic virus is not to be triffled with!

And no need to kvetch about vaxxines at all ... none exist as yet for this strain!

Takeaway - Don't eat Bat.

Kind regards, 

Bally)

(02-26-2025, 04:46 AM)Bally002 Wrote:

(02-26-2025, 04:35 AM)OmegaLogos Wrote: Explanation: Wash your hands ok ...

Personal Disclosure: And wear your hazmat suit eh!

A novel and new lethal haemorragic virus is not to be triffled with!

And no need to kvetch about vaxxines at all ... none exist as yet for this strain!

Takeaway - Don't eat Bat.

Kind regards, 

Bally)