New Ebola outbreak
Posted by Wollemi793@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 17 comments
While the world media obsesses over hantaviris, a new Ebola outbreak has exploded in the DRC, already killing 65.
Often there are small Ebola outbreaks that fizzle out fairly quickly, but the numbers here and the location at populous gold mining towns with lots of itinerant workers may set the scene for a re-run of 2014 outbreak in west Africa that killed tens of thousands.
SeriousGoofball@reddit
If ebola became an airborne disease we'd have a serious problem.
If it became infectious during the latent period we'd have a serious problem.
If it did both, we'd have an apocalypse.
GlockAF@reddit
Yay?
As long as it’s a mask and vaccination thing I say bring it on. Still WAY too many deliberately ignorant people out there voting and purchasing politicians. The next pandemic oughta sort it out
sleepytipi@reddit
Rich of you to assume the politicians who spread misinformation aren't aware they're spreading misinformation.
vand3lay1ndustries@reddit
Dwight, that you?
Coco_Cannibal@reddit
Yersinia pestis has the modus operandi of becoming airborne during every outbreak, if it's long enough(like in the past) and not contained. It starts out as normal transmission via fleas and than evolved into human to human airborne transmission during the usually months to years outbreaks, which is faster and deadlier than the og strain.
Middle_Manager_Karen@reddit
I wonder how this relates to the end of USAID. I can't make the connections but I would bet it's not very many logic jumps from loss of funding to public health crisis like this.
civicsfactor@reddit
Even the data they're destroying.
If they don't keep classified materials from its history around they're probably not gently treating the regular stuff.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/usaid-staff-documents
PlausiblyCoincident@reddit
Side note: the BBC has been pay-walled in the US since June last year.
Wollemi793@reddit (OP)
I didn't know that sorry, I'm in Australia and access to it isn't an issue here.
PlausiblyCoincident@reddit
No worries, I knew it had been pay-walled, but didn't realize it was only the US until recently.
Upper_Luck1348@reddit
Use a reader
Leather_Amoeba2727@reddit
Lol
False_Raven@reddit
Ebola kills much faster than it spreads
I'm not trying to belittle it, its still a problem, but its typically a localized problem.
Coco_Cannibal@reddit
2-21 days is quite a range a virus can work with and if it hits a greater population at a given time it has enough playground to evolve into better adapted strains. Aids started out similar to ebola (and both are zoonotic too).
vinegar@reddit
I don’t know anything about the reality on the ground but in the US my recollection about the 2014 ebola outbreak is that it was the top story on tv news every night until Obama got walloped in the midterms then I never heard it mentioned again. I don’t have the search chops to actually track it.
artisanrox@reddit
Man, DRC has it so rough. Looks like at times the whole coutnry is on fire and they have so many disease outbreaks.
Uarenotalone@reddit
Oh great add it to the list!!!