There Is A New Ebola Flare Up In The Capital City Of Uganda -- Kampala -- With 44 Known Contacts Of The Index: A Deceased Nurse.

Within a week of Tangerine 2.0 saying the US would be withdrawing its funding from WHO, we see an entirely new flare up, of the dread Ebola virus -- and in a bustling, crowded capital city of about 1.8 million people, no less.

In addition, the fatality occurred among hospital workers -- leaving a real possibility of much wider spread.

For now, the focus must be on vaccinating all the host/nurse's known contacts -- and then tracing the contacts, of those contacts. They all ought to be vaccinated, Mr. Kennedy -- despite your loony theories. [The NewLink/Merck ZEBOV vaccine (branded now as Ervebo^®) is over 98% effective, in multiple prior outbreaks, in preventing transmission and/or host infection.]

Here's the latest from CBS -- as we all look toward DC, and cringe at the prospect that junk science may cost lives, across the ocean.

. . .A nurse in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, has died of Ebola, a health official said Thursday, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended in 2023. Diana Atwine, permanent secretary of the health ministry, told reporters the 32-year-old male patient was an employee of Mulago Hospital, the main referral facility in Kampala. . . .

At least 44 contacts of the patient have been listed, including 30 health workers and patients at the hospital in Kampala, according to Uganda's Ministry of Health. . . .

What a strange, chaotic time this is, in the US life sciences sector, at least. All the result of. . . willful ignorance, or worse.

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