The interval between the onset of symptoms and death has been 48 hours in the majority of cases, and “that’s what’s really worrying,” Serge Ngalebato, medical director of Bikoro Hospital, a regional monitoring center, told The Associated Press.
The latest disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo began on Jan. 21, and 419 cases have been recorded including 53 deaths.
According to the WHO’s Africa office, the first outbreak in the town of Boloko began after three children ate a bat and died within 48 hours following hemorrhagic fever symptoms.
“Why do we send all these people food”
So they don’t have to eat fucking bats with covid-9000
It’s hard to explain international politics. This was a great example of doing it right.
It’s exactly nine thousand!
HAL was a virus the whole time
the first outbreak in the town of Boloko began after three children ate a bat
You’re kidding me
EBFO? Eat a bat and find out.
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Do we need awareness campaign for “don’t fucking eat bats”? Didn’t know we were that hopeless as species.
Economic desperation and lack of education. Think back to how dumb humans were just like 400 years ago, which is what 20 generations or something? Essentially no grasp of diseases in the modern sense. We are biologically 99.9999% or whatever the same as them.
Ebola spread during that ~2015 outbreak in large part because local customs meant washing the dead and otherwise being in close physical contact. Sadly, people simply didn’t know better.
Also, this is exactly why dismantling USAID was such a phenomenally stupid idea.
You want more plagues? This is how you get more plagues.
From how our Oligarchs have been speaking about the rest of us for quite some time, I’m thinking they want more plagues to get rid of us pesky useless eaters. Hence the destruction of our public health establishment.
The interval between the onset of symptoms and death has been 48 hours in the majority of cases, and “that’s what’s really worrying,”
That’s also great news because it’s easy to identify infections, quarantine, and contain. What would be really worrying is a hemorrhagic fever with an incubation period of 5-21 days a la covid.
Just because they died right after showing symptoms does mean that’s when they were infected. Maybe you’re contagious for 3 weeks then cough twice and die.
Have a nice day.
Have a nice day.
I don’t think I will
Yeah no thanks, you have a nice day 🤣
Yeah, these kids could have been bat-snacking for quite some time before they came down with any symptoms. Or they’d eaten bats without problems before they lost “bat roulette” and ate one with this particular disease.
Absolutely!
Another example is HIV: Initial infection is just a minor flu, you’re then infectious and active for 5-10 years before becoming seriously ill with AIDS (of course this is for untreated HIV). This allowed the illness to spread for decades adapting to humans before finally being identified in the 80s, killing millions.
Just gonna tack on here that everyone’s favorite presidential whipping boy, ol’ Ronnie shithead Reagan, was partially responsible for allowing it to continue spreading. Hell, his press secretary or some equivalent laughed at the one reporter that actually asked about it and implied the reporter was a homosexual. He also abandoned his buddy Roy Cohn because of it too.
May he rot in piss.
I’m afraid there may be a resurgence of the HIV denialism movement given that RFK is now secretary of health.
That’s also an old Soviet intelligence classic, so I’d bet you’re spot on.
HIV denialism
Because of widespread use PREP/PEP, there’s a growing number of people who stopped using any protection including the aforementioned meds…
Note to self: Do NOT eat bats. Even if Mom says, “We’re having bat tonight”.
I don’t like eating kale
you could eat balls instead
🎵 Say everybody have you seen my balls? They’re big and salty and brown. If you ever need a quick, pick-me-up, just stick my balls in your mouth 🎵
Suck on my chocolate salty baaaaaaaaaawllllsss
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When this civilization falls and the next one is beginning there’s going to be a religious ban on eating bats.
If it flaps, you slaps. Amen.
Confused, currently fapping my slap.
Fuck yes! A deadly pandemic without long drawn out suffering? Sign me up!
I’d rather have a few months of major discomfort than the two days of hard-core body horror that they just went through.
If you want to stay up for a few nights, read The Hot Zone, which is about Ebola. Those bats are gonna kill us all someday, and there are so many of them!
It’s not the bat’s fault really. If us humans would stop encroaching further into their territory and stopped warming the planet to the point of no return, we might not be having such extreme issues with zoonotic viruses we’ve never encountered before trying to kill us.
Don’t even need that much; just stop eating them.
If people aren’t living in the bat’s territory they wouldn’t be eating them either.
Fair.
It’s the Congo.
King Leopold was one of history’s greatest monsters. Rubber tree plantations - they’d chop a hand off or worse if you didn’t make quota. (The Heart of Darkness, later retold as Apocalypse Now, later retold as Spec Ops: the Line.)
The region has been ravaged for the past two centuries. Remember Kony 2012? Those starving children could have been soldiers.
They had a previous outbreak in December that was diagnosed as malaria. This outbreak is not that one but malaria has not been confirmed as the culprit.
In any case, please don’t go to Congo to bring whatever it is to the rest of the world. Let WHO experts figure it out…if only a retard president had not pulled funding for that vital global health organization.
We can insult Trump without restoring to ableist slurs.
Genuine question, would calling him an idiot, or some other euphemism, be better? It all boils down to “ableist” if you consider it deeply. How do you insult an individual without insulting people like them?
I mean, yes? Are there jackasses, douchebags, and shitbirds out there I should be worried about offending?
“Idiot” was once a medical term for severely mentally disabled people, along with imbecile and moron for less severely mentally disabled. Those terms were used to insult people and eventually became pejorative. The term “Retarded” was introduced to avoid the insult associated with “Idiot”. Now “retarded” is insulting and has been replaced by “developmentally disabled” or “special” or other such nonsense.
In general, value statements are meaningless except as an emotional expression and are a sign of an inability to be articulate and specific in what an issue is. It’s kinda why ad hominems are considered fallacies. Trump is a giant piece of shit though and that’s fine to say
I haven’t seen the r-slur used since the mid 2000s, and now suddenly it’s everywhere in the past 2-3 weeks. Why are we back-pedaling on even the most basic decencies?
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Literally society regressing in front of our eyes.
We ordered the one that infects “red hat”, not “fed bat”. Blame a bad connection, but we’re not paying for this Congo Labs. Try again. (Edit: forgot /s)
ITT: People that think only bats get human-transmissible diseases.
Exactly, it can go bat -> livestock/pet -> human just as well.
Guess I need to change my dinner plans for tonight.
Unknown… Ate bat. The entire gebuz loving world said they wouldn’t eat bats anymore, but some kid somewhere in Congo found them tasty again. WTF! Bats look ugly for a good reason. They carry diseases! Stop eating bats! Eat chicken instead! Please eat chicken!
Seriously! Just ask your dad to run to Whole Foods, dummy!
It was a sick ostrich
Fuck! Dudes! I strictly repeated several times to not eat bats so we could prevent another covid! WTF was wrong with these people? Bat= not food!!! Other not foods include but not limited to Stork, venomous things, pets, people, clouds, poop, teeth, big cats, other cats, armadillos, rinos, elephants and other nature show animals. Food animals… Chicken, tilapia, cow, pig.
Now the next and most important thing to do is: 1) don’t go to Congo to see or touch or be near the dead. 2) don’t come back from Congo if you saw, touched or were near the dead. Easy peasy.
Obviously this was a mutant rabies virus. Let’s call it RabiesUltra25…RU25 for short. Thanks for reading! Look out! Behind you! Gotcha!
Rabies takes waaaaaay longer to kill you than whatever those poor kids got from bats.
