An outbreak of a deadly but unidentified illness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been making news. While the symptoms are closely related to other hemorrhagic viruses like Ebola and Marburg, samples have tested negative for those diseases. apnews.com/article/cong... - ThreadSky

altcdc.bsky.social • 3 days ago

An outbreak of a deadly but unidentified illness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been making news. While the symptoms are closely related to other hemorrhagic viruses like Ebola and Marburg, samples have tested negative for those diseases.

https://apnews.com/article/congo-mystery-unknown-illness-cd8b1fdcb3b2ed032968b2c6044dc6db

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alandval.bsky.social•3 days ago

THIS sounds like a job for DOGE! Get them over there STAT!

altcdc.bsky.social•3 days ago

Let us be clear that we are NOT sharing this to alarm anyone. We ARE sharing as an example of how recent changes made by the administration have hamstrung our ability to investigate and respond to this situation.

altcdc.bsky.social•3 days ago

Historically, USAID has been charged with supporting global health and providing disaster assistance, including coordinating the US response to outbreaks. They provide medical supplies, trained personnel, and financial support.

altcdc.bsky.social•3 days ago

They also help set up public health campaigns to increase awareness and educate people about symptoms and safety.

Now, USAID has been dismantled.

altcdc.bsky.social•3 days ago

The WHO likewise provides medical supplies and equipment, provides logistical support, and helps countries with surveillance and monitoring. Additionally, WHO is critical for the exchange of information.

Now, the US has withdrawn from WHO.

altcdc.bsky.social•3 days ago

Dismantling USAID and withdrawing from WHO not only limits our ability to provide on the ground support, it also means we have almost no way to get information out. That means we're flying blind when it comes to identifying, assessing, and mitigating domestic risks.

altcdc.bsky.social•3 days ago

End result? We are all less safe because we can’t exchange info on outbreaks as they occur, disease characteristics, and so forth...and we have no in-country support.

larry.earth•3 days ago

Did you make the point earlier that Congo is good about containing these outbreaks? As in, they have a functioning public health system?

letek.bsky.social•3 days ago

Wait... The CONGO has a functional health care system and we don't? -_- tbh... Most of the world has functional health care.

larry.earth•3 days ago

Yes. We, on the other hand, have an administration intent on destroying ours. It's a comfort to know feds like @altcdc.bsky.social are resisting.

poppyuzumaki.bsky.social•3 days ago

If only we had a federal agency that could stop testing for filoviruses and start testing for arenaviruses.

lindazawislak.bsky.social•3 days ago

Scary!

echo-too.bsky.social•3 days ago

I started watching this via ProMED a couple of days ago.
Reminded me of the first mention of the COVID 19 'unidentified illness' being reported in China a few years ago.

dollyfromcali.bsky.social•2 days ago

🙂‍↕️ feeling so confident that this will be fine (preps bleach drip IV)

kittiesplease.bsky.social•3 days ago

📌 we're doing a case study on the DRC right now in my Global Health Management course

Holy smokes what a horrible situation 😔

wolfbear7.bsky.social•2 days ago

And worm boy will do his best to ignore it.

sbshipway.bsky.social•3 days ago

Wow I love as watching this before the take over.

kafkablue.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yay, another mystery illness shortly after Trump becomes president.

Feels like God is trying to tell Christians something.

arwashington.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s actually no
longer a mystery-
of the corruption
human trafficking
biological warfare
and pharmaceutical
testing that’s been
instituted in Africa.

“They” just continue
spread lies; hysteria
and propaganda for
emotional-distraction.

Meanwhile,the rich
get richer and the
poor get poorer.

aislinnmacandriu.bsky.social•3 days ago

And YOU just propagated a really crazy conspiracy theory. Congratulations.

immapeacock.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's a good thing the US has more billionaires than any other country in the world.

immapeacock.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oops, I mean second most.

goodwins0426.bsky.social•3 days ago

Also, don’t eat bats. Like never.

paulwalker44.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s just the rich. They’re dropping diseases and viruses like they have always have done. Today isn’t any different.

blktoto909.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yup, dropped the disease in Africa, then defunded USAID.

It's ethnic cleansing. Dirty demon colonizers.

paulwalker44.bsky.social•3 days ago

You know it.

riandraegon.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh, goodie. A new plague.

realitybites66.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you for getting information out! 🙏 Sharing?

liberal-jen.bsky.social•3 days ago

My first thought is CCHF and that's an horrific thought. Most people are so blissfully ignorant of the world of infectious diseases. They're also unaware that the largest shield between them and infection is the federal gov't and federal dollars.

doctorscientist.bsky.social•3 days ago

Do you think the bat just was a coincidence? (Not sarcasm)

liberal-jen.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'd never rule out bats with a zoonotic disease. I know bats can have CCHF antibodies.

doctorscientist.bsky.social•3 days ago

The whole situation is just awful. I was scheduled to go to Texas when ebola was there & I canceled the trip.

liberal-jen.bsky.social•3 days ago

My partner works in a BSL4 lab and my dad was a research veterinarian. It's shocking how clueless the public is. We have an abject lack of scientific literacy and curiosity.

doctorscientist.bsky.social•3 days ago

I worked in BSL3. I miss the work. We lost funding & the place I was working laid off 500 people. Doing work on antivirals and vaccines was my passion. I helped set up many molecular labs during covid. I love infectious disease work, but it's not a money maker & requires fed support.

jessakay.bsky.social•3 days ago

Anyone else read the James Rollins book that was a fictional account of a very similar event rooted in real science and historical context? Or am I the only one freaking out over the similarities of his "predictions"? @jamesrollins.bsky.social You are my go to author rec btw!

pjp11.bsky.social•3 days ago

Obama and Biden would have our best and brightest scientists there by now researching this disease.

slclawyer.bsky.social•3 days ago

And our CDC has been neutralized and silenced

bluebayog.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’m sure Robert Kennedy is on top of this ensuring that our research Drs are trying to develop a vaccine, NOT!

thefuncooker.bsky.social•2 days ago

kristinfo.bsky.social•3 days ago

People need to leave bats alone. They're not for eating. Just enjoy watching them fly at dusk and nibble the mosquitos and moths.

brownsuddenly.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes, no doubt the children chose the bat over a roast chicken dinner. 😒

djmercymay.bsky.social•3 days ago

3 children do not usually eat a bat until starved enough to do so.

peaceseeker59.bsky.social•3 days ago

Cripes. This really is the end. Bring on the asteroid!

jakernory.bsky.social•3 days ago

Increasingly, massive nuclear war is looking like a good option. Let the cockroaches rebuild in a few hundred million years.

peaceseeker59.bsky.social•3 days ago

The earth will always remake itself and survive. Better without humans.

mark-darson.bsky.social•3 days ago

Great time to gut our nation's health response. Go MAGA!

reddroostermann.bsky.social•2 days ago

fret not MurKKKa!

mitchmcgonagall.bsky.social•3 days ago

Wondering when NCEZID will spin up a response for this. Do they need to be invited by WHO or DRC first?

djmercymay.bsky.social•3 days ago

Anyone know the recipe for Jonestown Koolaid?

rebeccaamccoy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Remember the Ebola outbreak during Obama’s presidency? The US was able to help fight that outbreak and quickly prevent a spread of the disease in America because of the work of USAID and WHO. Those health safety measures are now gone, slashed byTrump/Musk.

nova123.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes, they were on that shit. They stamped that out. Also, here in Ontario, we stopped SARS right in its tracks in 2002. SARS was highly infectious and potentially could’ve been worse than Covid.

faeriegoblin.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes, I can tell you we had hours and hours of training as medical professionals on how to recognize and contain a patient with Ebola, what kind of PPE to use to keep ourselves safe, how to report…

Covid- 🦗nothin….

faeriegoblin.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because our former and then current president and billionaire friends were too busy making sure his stocks didn’t lose value.

It wasn’t incompetence, it was a choice.

faeriegoblin.bsky.social•3 days ago

Our health systems have been politicized since Reagan decreed the head of the CDC be a political appointment, not a doctor.

Every system this country had created to protect people has at this point been corrupted by greed.

rebeccaamccoy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Our whole health system is based on greed.

lyndawoolard.bsky.social•3 days ago

I mean — covid — it would have been better handled had Trump admin 1 not thrown away the Obama playbook for the next pandemic they had all ready to go. The subsequent spread and deaths were ultimately intentional.

nova123.bsky.social•3 days ago

Under another administration, it would’ve been much better handled. So many people died needlessly.

traumamomma.bsky.social•3 days ago

Not good

lucia345.bsky.social•3 days ago

That's not good, possible mutation?

bignasty97.bsky.social•3 days ago

Or a de novo hemorrhagic fever virus that hadn’t made the jump to humans yet.

aislinnmacandriu.bsky.social•3 days ago

Looks like it did.

oopsallmuffintop.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh good

sushimacc.bsky.social•3 days ago

Like sweating sickness 500 years ago in England…they died within hours.

lfrankow.bsky.social•3 days ago

Plague 2: Electric Boogaloo

skyblue13.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s been reported that some kids at a bat and it spread from there. Just terrible to not make people aware of risks in the non normal things we eat.

brownsuddenly.bsky.social•3 days ago

Aren't all your chickens currently spreading diseases?

skyblue13.bsky.social•3 days ago

Of course, which is why chicken prices have skyrocketed, which is why chickens are being tested before leaving a farm, which is why we know to stay away from infected ones, which is why you know about it because you’ve been informed about it 🙄

jakernory.bsky.social•3 days ago

What’s normal for you isn’t normal for others.

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