Per New AP Reporting -- It Seems The '25 Ebola Outbreak, In The Capital -- Kampala, Uganda This Time... Is The Sudan Variant. Dammit.

Well, this is very. . . discouraging. While we believe GAVI was funding work on a vaccine for the Sudan variant of Ebola, we are only aware of one candidate close enough to be used on the ground -- right now: that would be the Soligenix candidate. And that one has (as the legacy graphic at right indicates) received FDA's promising "orphan drug" designation.

But unlike with the Zaire variant, there are no approved vaccines for the Sudan variant. This presents yet another layer of difficulties, in securing informed consent from the contacts in Kampala (and the contacts of those contacts, obviously). Yikes. Here's the latest:

. . .There are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola that killed a nurse employed at Kampala’s main referral hospital. The man died on Wednesday and authorities declared an outbreak the next day. Officials are still investigating the source of the outbreak, and there has been no other confirmed case. . . .

But per STAT's reporting of the morning, we know six are already ill, and there are 44 direct contacts to check up on. And to track down THEIR contacts.

All as. . . meanwhile, Nero fiddles -- with idiotic tariff theatrics (bread and circuses) rather than putting out the fires ragin' already inside Rome. Damn.

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