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The #MarburgVirus is a cousin of #Ebola & there are outbreaks now in Equatorial Guinea, on the borders of Gabon & Cameroon & on other side of Africa, in Tanzania, all on the heels of Ghana outbreak last year. @WHOAFRO @WHO & African CDC are mobilized.
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There are 6 major subtypes of #Marburg which is a bat-carried hemorrhagic RNA virus. The subtypes seem to have different fatality rates in humans -- up to 100%. The current strains have not yet been genotyped, so it is unclear what is going on, @WHO says.
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It's possible these are coincident events.
It's also possible something is going on w/bat populations across equatorial Africa, which would be worrying.
@WHO 's Dr. Abdi Rahman Mahamoud just said in presser there are "more questions than answers."
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It's also possible something is going on w/bat populations across equatorial Africa, which would be worrying.
@WHO 's Dr. Abdi Rahman Mahamoud just said in presser there are "more questions than answers."
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🆘 🚨 🇨🇦 Canada is UNDER ATTACK by the CCP. This story goes so deep and dark! SOS. 🚨🇨🇦🆘🐇🕳️ 🧵 #CCP #Canada @TuckerCarlson @dbongino @JackPosobiec @FoxNews @HumanEventsNews more in comments 👇🏻 a brief summary of Chinas interference in Canada @GetTheLeadOutCA
Since last year @globalnews reporter @scoopercooper has been digging into Chinese election interference. The CCP worked hard to make sure the @liberal_party of Canada and @JustinTrudeau won, they’ve been funding and helping Justin for over a decade
Sam even wrote a best selling book about it (2 years ago)
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1. Did West Africa’s Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin?
A team went in to the infected area after the Ebola Pandemic. They went in search of how this virus jumped from animal to human.
Were they part of the coverup?
#Metabiota #Ebola #lableak
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A team went in to the infected area after the Ebola Pandemic. They went in search of how this virus jumped from animal to human.
Were they part of the coverup?
#Metabiota #Ebola #lableak
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2. The article goes much more in depth, but I will summarize the article for you...
3. "For their investigation, the Leendertz team surveyed bats in the area surrounding Meliandou...
All-told, the Leendertz team found no sign whatever of Ebola in the area around Meliandou."
All-told, the Leendertz team found no sign whatever of Ebola in the area around Meliandou."
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"Three years ago today, I declared a public health emergency of international concern over the global spread of #COVID19 – the highest level of alarm under the International Health Regulations, and for the moment, the only level of alarm"-@DrTedros #EB152
@DrTedros "As you know, on Friday the Emergency Committee met to consider whether that remains the case. The committee has advised me that in its view, #COVID19 remains a global health emergency, and I agree"-@DrTedros #EB152 bit.ly/3JtgqhJ
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Back in the days of John Humphrey Noyes before he got suspended for posting a study indicating there's viral persistence in epithelium of kids, because everyone includes kids.
How does a twit like this get 108K views propagating “what if viral persistence is REAL”?
It’s almost like we are back to banning twitter accounts for insisting SARS is airborne!
It’s almost like we are back to banning twitter accounts for insisting SARS is airborne!
WHEN the rest of non-SARS experts acknowledge that “viral persistence is a thing”, we will be one step closer to acknowledging the true immunity dysfunction threat of SARS
#AirborneAIDS
#AirborneAIDS
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Looking forward to what should be a timely debate on how and what the UK Govt can do to help to boost the UK's resilience #IfGResilience
First @tom_sasse opens the webinar by highlighting the recent extreme weather in both the summer & winter, the recent #Coronavirus pandemic & ongoing threats from terrorism & cybersecurity as reasons for #Resilience to be a top national priority #IfGResilience
Sasse notes that the government is due to publish its National Resilience Strategy "presently", but notes that it has probably been delayed in "the recent political maelstroms" #IfGResilience
One of the three candidate #Ebola vaccines against the Sudan ebolavirus have arrived in #Uganda to be included in a clinical trial bit.ly/3FBY2Rw
There are no licensed #Ebola vaccines against the Sudan ebolavirus species responsible for the current outbreak in #Uganda, thus the need for the current trial bit.ly/3FBY2Rw
Thanks to efforts of partners & collaborative approach, the process for this #Ebola vaccine trial was accelerated - with speedy trial protocol design, regulatory and ethical processes, forming & training research teams so that the trial is conducted as per international standards
1. An overdue #Ebola update:
Something appears to be working in Uganda's Ebola Sudan outbreak, though I should stress that all I have to go on right now are data released by the Ugandan government. Per their latest SitRep, there hasn't been a new confirmed case since Nov. 12.
Something appears to be working in Uganda's Ebola Sudan outbreak, though I should stress that all I have to go on right now are data released by the Ugandan government. Per their latest SitRep, there hasn't been a new confirmed case since Nov. 12.
2. No new cases, no new deaths. The outbreak is currently holding at 163 confirmed & probable cases & 77 confirmed and probable deaths. #Ebola
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3. A chart in the latest #Ebola SitRep shows 4 districts have had their most recent case within the past 2 weeks. The incubation period for Ebola is up to 21 days, so they aren't out of the woods.
These are only confirmed cases; I'm not sure when the last probable case was.
These are only confirmed cases; I'm not sure when the last probable case was.
I will never
understand & nor accept
that governments act
against
public health preventions
to limit
airborne biohazard transmission
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let rip #SARSCoV2
uncontrolled
speeds up arise
of immune evasive vocs
dysregulate intrinsically
immune responses w/o knowing longterm sequelae
understand & nor accept
that governments act
against
public health preventions
to limit
airborne biohazard transmission
😷
let rip #SARSCoV2
uncontrolled
speeds up arise
of immune evasive vocs
dysregulate intrinsically
immune responses w/o knowing longterm sequelae
ask them why!
ask for plan B!
ask for surveillance!
ask for prevention!
ask for public health measures to prevent airborne crosscontaminations of #Biohazards
#SARSCoV2 #EBOLA #monkeypox #tuberculosis #RSV
ask for clean air rules indoors
ask!
ask!!
ask!!!
don't be silent📢🔊
ask for plan B!
ask for surveillance!
ask for prevention!
ask for public health measures to prevent airborne crosscontaminations of #Biohazards
#SARSCoV2 #EBOLA #monkeypox #tuberculosis #RSV
ask for clean air rules indoors
ask!
ask!!
ask!!!
don't be silent📢🔊
collective denials are dealy, history told us to be aware of gaslighters, I don't recognize world
no media reports
about strange
ph strategy
@Weltspiegel_ARD @ZDF @phoenix_de @DLFNachrichten
@dlfnova
no media reports
about strange
ph strategy
@Weltspiegel_ARD @ZDF @phoenix_de @DLFNachrichten
@dlfnova
#Ebola #Colorado
#StaySafe #Uganda #EbolaSudan @B0tSci #IDTwitter
@pen_is_mighty
@pawley_robert
@denise_dewald
@danaparish
@DanCady
"In Colorado, health officials are tracking multiple people who recently arrived from high-risk areas..." MORE
#StaySafe #Uganda #EbolaSudan @B0tSci #IDTwitter
@pen_is_mighty
@pawley_robert
@denise_dewald
@danaparish
@DanCady
"In Colorado, health officials are tracking multiple people who recently arrived from high-risk areas..." MORE
2/ The current Ebola outbreak is related to what's known as the "Sudan strain," but the virus is spreading in Uganda. "It's worrisome because previous Ebola vaccines & treatments do not work against this strain. The virus can kill as many as 1/2 of those MORE
3/ who get it. Ebola now is spreading in Kampala, Uganda's capital, a densely populated city of > 1.3 M.
"Mortality is high, between 40-50%. So, this is not insignificant."
"The likelihood of us seeing a patient is next to zero.
"Mortality is high, between 40-50%. So, this is not insignificant."
"The likelihood of us seeing a patient is next to zero.
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1/ I'm growing increasingly worried about #Ebola in Uganda.
Over the past few days, cases have been reported in previously unaffected districts, rates have started increasing, & the MoH sit reps were plagued w/ errors.
All signs point toward a deteriorating situation.
Over the past few days, cases have been reported in previously unaffected districts, rates have started increasing, & the MoH sit reps were plagued w/ errors.
All signs point toward a deteriorating situation.
2/ Over the past week, confirmed Ebola cases have been reported in the Masaka and Jinja districts. This is the first time EVD cases have been reported in these districts. who.int/emergencies/di…
3/ As @sneweyy reports, when new cases show up in previously unaffected regions, that is a sign contact tracing efforts may be failing.
1. Short #Ebola 🧵
Another health worker has been infected in Uganda's Ebola Sudan outbreak, a 23 yo woman working in Mubende district. Here's hoping she recovers.
Another health worker has been infected in Uganda's Ebola Sudan outbreak, a 23 yo woman working in Mubende district. Here's hoping she recovers.
2. Uganda's health ministry has been downplaying the scale of its outbreak by refusing to add probable cases to case/death counts. They aren't just doing it to overall cases, they're doing it with health workers too.
They say there have been 19 HCW infections + 7 deaths.
They say there have been 19 HCW infections + 7 deaths.
3. But if you look inside their situation reports, there is one table in which they list probable cases (all probable cases are people who died without being tested). If you look there, you see that in addition to 19 confirmed HCW cases, there've been 7 probable HCW cases.
1. Short #Ebola thread:
@WHO issued an update — a DON — today about the Ugandan outbreak. It's been nearly 2 weeks since their last. The scarcity of detail coming out on this outbreak continues to surprise & concern me. I believe that's Uganda's call.
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@WHO issued an update — a DON — today about the Ugandan outbreak. It's been nearly 2 weeks since their last. The scarcity of detail coming out on this outbreak continues to surprise & concern me. I believe that's Uganda's call.
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2. The latest SitRep from Uganda reports that there have been 157 confirmed and probable #Ebola cases & 54 confirmed and probable deaths. They will not add the probable cases so we have to do the math ourselves. I added those arrows.
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1. #Ebola thread.
Uganda's health minister, @JaneRuth_Aceng announced today that the special measures put in place in mid-October to stop spread of the disease have been extended for another 21 days. Among other things, they block movement in & out of the 2 worst hit areas.
Uganda's health minister, @JaneRuth_Aceng announced today that the special measures put in place in mid-October to stop spread of the disease have been extended for another 21 days. Among other things, they block movement in & out of the 2 worst hit areas.
2. Those areas are Mubende & Kassanda districts. @JaneRuth_Aceng said to date there have been 132 confirmed #Ebola cases & 53 confirmed deaths. She didn't mention the 21 probable cases & deaths; they bring the outbreak totals to 153 cases & 74 deaths.
3. The health minister said a weak health system, myths & misinformation, a belief in witchcraft & exhumation of dead bodies to perform cultural rituals are obstructing efforts to control the #Ebola outbreak.
1 exhumation lead to 43 people contracting the disease & 6 deaths.
1 exhumation lead to 43 people contracting the disease & 6 deaths.
To support the response to the #Ebola outbreak in #Uganda 🇺🇬, @CEPIvaccines, @gavi & WHO outline a plan to:
🔸 accelerate research
🔸 ensure access to investigational doses
🔸 facilitate scaling up & access to any subsequent licensed vaccine
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📌 bit.ly/3Ur3gEl
🔸 accelerate research
🔸 ensure access to investigational doses
🔸 facilitate scaling up & access to any subsequent licensed vaccine
More:
📌 bit.ly/3Ur3gEl
There are currently no licensed vaccines (or therapeutics) for #Ebola disease caused by the Sudan ebolavirus.
More research is urgently needed: several candidate vaccines appear to be suitable for evaluation in a clinical trial during this outbreak.
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More research is urgently needed: several candidate vaccines appear to be suitable for evaluation in a clinical trial during this outbreak.
📌 bit.ly/3Ur3gEl
By embedding research at heart of the #Ebola outbreak response, 2 goals can be achieved:
1⃣ to evaluate potentially efficacious candidate vaccines to potentially contribute to end this outbreak
2⃣ to protect populations at risk in the future
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1⃣ to evaluate potentially efficacious candidate vaccines to potentially contribute to end this outbreak
2⃣ to protect populations at risk in the future
More:
📌 bit.ly/3Ur3gEl
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"This week marks two years since the siege of Tigray began.
The Afar and Amhara regions are also affected by the conflict, but WHO and our partners have access to those regions and have been able to deliver humanitarian aid."-@DrTedros
The Afar and Amhara regions are also affected by the conflict, but WHO and our partners have access to those regions and have been able to deliver humanitarian aid."-@DrTedros
"However, the humanitarian situation in Tigray remains catastrophic. As I have said before, the siege of 6 million people by Ethiopian & Eritrean forces is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world."-@DrTedros
1. #Ebola thread.
The numbers in the Ugandan outbreak are rising pretty rapidly. Last week this outbreak was the 11th largest on record. It's now the 8th. There's a fairly big gap between 8th and 7th, but I would not bet against this outbreak moving further up the top 10 list.
The numbers in the Ugandan outbreak are rising pretty rapidly. Last week this outbreak was the 11th largest on record. It's now the 8th. There's a fairly big gap between 8th and 7th, but I would not bet against this outbreak moving further up the top 10 list.
2. One of the reasons I think this #Ebola outbreak could get a lot larger is just the pace of the recent growth of cases & the presence of cases in Kampala. But also, the followup rate of contacts listed in the latest SitRep from Uganda is not great.
3. Uganda has been boasting a contact follow up rate of in the mid-to-high 90% range. It's down to 88%. And that's of the contacts they know if. If they are missing cases, there are more contacts they don't know of.
The bigger an outbreak gets, the harder this job becomes.
The bigger an outbreak gets, the harder this job becomes.
