World's 2nd-largest Ebola outbreak surpasses 3,000 cases

The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has exceeded 3,000 cases, as the yearlong epidemic continues to grow despite access to an experimental vaccine and developmental treatments.

A total of 3,004 people have reported symptoms of hemorrhagic fever in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo since Aug. 1 of last year, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service. More than 2,000 of those individuals have died from the disease, which is transmitted through contact with blood or secretions from an infected person and causes an often-fatal type of hemorrhagic fever.

The grim milestone comes a month after the WHO declared the outbreak an international emergency.

"Security issues in the affected areas make this the most challenging Ebola outbreak in history, but the U.S. government and our local and international partners remain undeterred and will not rest until the outbreak is ended," HHS Secretary Alex Azar said in a statement Thursday.

This is the 10th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the most severe there since 1976, when scientists first identified the virus near the eponymous Ebola River. It's also one of the worst Ebola outbreaks on record anywhere, second only to the 2014-2016 epidemic in multiple West African nations that infected 28,652 people and killed 11,325, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Well, well. Throw billions of dollars in "foreign aid" to shitholes like Congo and they'll still shit in the rivers, make hair pomades out of their own shit, etc., etc. I kinda sorta feel that the best native Congolese minds are in the development of the "promising vaccine" for the virus.

Unknown sources have hinted that the chief virologist developing the vaccine is pictured below:

Believe it or not I saw a kwa presented hype on a news site that advocated folks to emigrate to Congo, stating that living there was very cheap and they could see lots and lots of exotic animals. The blurb didn't mention the exotic diseases...….