UPDATE: There Have Now Been At Least 17 Confirmed Deaths, From RVF, In Senegal And Mauritania. For Shame.

Again, these deaths could / would likely have been avoided -- if USAID was still on the ground and working, in the St. Louis region of Senegal. And in an around the capital of Dakar.

Yet here we are -- a number of outbreaks (ebola and mpox included) that we well-know how to arrest. . . are ongoing, if not worsening. This is a very sad step backward, for the humanity, in/of bio-science, all due to one feckless narcissist:

. . .In an update today from the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), officials said no new Ebola cases have been reported for 16 days, and mpox is down 65% from its peak.

But Rift Valley fever (RVF) cases in people and animals are rising in Senegal and Mauritania and have killed at least 17 people, the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) said in a statement today. RVF is a viral hemorrhagic fever that affects mainly livestock but can also infect people. "These outbreaks appear to be linked to heavy rainfall and flooding in preceding months which have created favourable conditions for disease transmission," the WOAH statement said.

"As RFV is a transboundary animal disease, regional cooperation will be essential to assess and manage the risk posed by these outbreaks. . . ."

Onward, resolutely just the same. Be excellent to one another. The quantum entangled love story play of last night was passable but not outstanding. Smile. . . .

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