Breaking | A New Marburg Outbreak -- In Jinka, Ethiopia: Nine People Stricken... USAID, MIA.

With USAID sidelined [by Tangerine 2.0's fecklessness], this is pretty darn bad news.

While a promising vaccine candidate may soon be tested there, there is no approved mRNA vaccine for Marburg, at present. At least nine cases of the rare viral hemorrhagic fever have been confirmed, the WHO public health officials said -- on Friday.

Ethiopia had avoided major outbreaks of both Ebola and Mpox, for almost a decade -- but now this lethal "cousin to Ebola" is rumbling through the country. [It was last seen in Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya just over a year ago.] Here's the Wa Po on it all:

. . .At least nine people in southern Ethiopia have been infected with the deadly Marburg virus, a clinically similar cousin to Ebola, in the East African country’s first outbreak of the highly contagious disease, the World Health Organization said Friday. Ethiopia’s health ministry also confirmed the outbreak. . . .

The WHO “is actively supporting Ethiopia to contain the outbreak and treat infected people, and supporting all efforts to address the potential of cross-border spread,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the WHO. . . .

Onward. Very warm here -- with two trips in the next two weeks; one westward to the mountains. . . . then everyone here for Thanksgiving -- and then the following week, one to middle Tennessee -- for more federal court Abrego hearings, and a local Nutcracker ballet performance. [Will compare to Avy's -- my sweet grand-niece's version -- which is the skaters' version -- "on ice" -- this year, here! Hah!]

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