Officially, Over 10,000 Bundibugyo Ebola Cases; Actual Totals: Likely Double That -- With ~48% Mortality Rate.

This is very grim. The globe's fastest ever Ebola outbreak spread has reached 10,000 souls -- with nearly half of them already dead.

And, the "but for" cause of these cases and deaths? It is mostly. . . Trump and Musk. Dammit. Here's that, from Aljazeera:

. . .Confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have surpassed 10,000 as the outbreak continues to spread across the country and beyond its borders.

Government data released on Tuesday put confirmed cases at 10,060 and deaths at 4,887. . . .

It is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in the country’s history and nearly half of the 10,060 confirmed to have the virus have died, according to data from the DRC’s Ministry of Public Health. That also makes it the deadliest outbreak of the disease in the country’s history.

With cases also mounting outside the DRC, the wider outbreak is also the second-largest and second-deadliest on record, trailing only the 2014-2016 West African epidemic, which saw 28,600 infected and more than 11,000 dead within two years. . . .

And as we've long explained, the actual totals may easily already be 80% higher than the official on the record marks. Dammit -- all largely avoidable. [And go get it, in PT, Steve-o!]

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