It says to avoid contact with dead bodies. Humm, that is probably good life advice just in general. But 47,000 monkeypox cases, that's concerning.

 

Quarantine? Close the border? Ban flights from Congo and passengers originating in Congo?

 

Don't be an idiot.
Let's set up direct flights from Congo to every major city in the US instead. Show some compassion.

 

Ohhhh... what shall we call it??

 

Congo's Problem and cutoff contact with them...

 

I’ve spent time in the part of Africa, sounds like nothing has changed since 1997. Still a dump with tons of self induced health issues.

 

Before any of us kids were born, my
parents were old friends with a couple
that answered the call to become
Baptist missionaries in kenya and
adjacent areas.
In some of the old airmail letters
( yeah it was that long ago) my
mother shared with me, the woman
had written about the appalling
hygiene conditions ( more like the
lack of) that were normal in some
of the places they went to minister
at. I remember helping my mom
pack up many rolls of TP to ship
to them in africa, and other personal
hygiene things, toothpaste, soap, etc.
I guess things haven't changed a lot
since you see those people wading
in waterholes with their cattle
evacuating body waste and those
worms burrowing into the people's
legs and feet, and whatever tribes
wash their head with cow's ur*ne
to turn their hair red.
Heard similar tales from se asian
refugees and veterans, mainly
about soap and people bathing
and washing clothes downstream
of their w buffaloes while the animals
empty themselves

 

Only warning y'all will get folks...

This IS NOT the political section.

Do not post political crap in this thread.

 

Bill Gates at work?

 

I was in the area when an outbreak of Congo Crimean-hemorrhagic fever virus (spread by ticks!) was announced in an email.. Makes Ebola seem like the sniffles... My company email stated it had an 85% fatality for that region. It appears to me, the Congo is a land of a 1000 and 1 ways to die!

 

Something is here in Cleveland-Traveller from Congo isolated w flu-like symptoms🙈
Marburg is lose in Rwanda now

 

I have often wondered if some areas of Africa are used as trial areas for new viruses, chemicals, etc.

 

Its an ideal place…other than the biosphere itself being perfect,the prevalence of other virus’ and reservoirs there make it hard to isolate a source…
Wuhan was one lab in one town…that entire Western slab of Africa is a stinkpit of disease…
No way to say where something came from…they still dont know the exact reservoir of Ebola beyond “bats contaminate fruit that monkeys eat that are then eaten by people” bs…🙈
That's generic crap to make people think they actually know stuff🤔

 

Fears mystery Congo flu already in US as American traveler falls sick

The individual is being treated at UH St. John Medical Center outside Cleveland, Ohio , with staff treating the patient also told to wear face masks.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

Long ago Belgium had the FBI (fonds du bien être indigène) Almost all the diseases where under control and there was no war.
They wanted to be "free". They got a dictator, no jobs and fancy diseases
After burning hospitals and killing doctors, raping nurses they got what they "wanted"

 

Not trying to be pedantic here, but what are you referring to?

There are the German 'Rape of Belgium' in WWI, and the 'Crimes Against Humanity' subsequently committed by Belgium in the Congo. Or do you refer to something else?

Who, what, where, when, why? I couldn't answer any of those from your post.

 

Every other Zombie novel starts out with a mysterious virus infecting people in a remote place, like Congo...LOL

That aside, my best guess is it is probably Ebola or a related strain.

 

There were no crimes committed .But some "big countries" wanted to invade our Belgisch Congo because it was so rich. . There is not one crime just fancy tales to destroy every economic structure.
They got FREE education, free health care, schools, roads. From the moment Belgium was in charge every thing went better. The UK and others wanted this country. The uranium for the first A bombs came from our mines in Congo. Almost everything was under Control: Ebola, malaria etc.
Now its a nightmare. King Leopold owned the Congo but the Belgian government took control so that everything became human for the Congolese

 

I'm more interested in hearing more about this mysterious disease. If people are dying and then getting back up wanting to eat brains... I need to redo my preps. More ammo... lots more ammo...

 

Apparently 40% of Africans have AIDS. Without Western Help, AT LEAST 40% wouldn't be around in a few years. Just Sayin'. I'd bet that it's pretty much the same deal in all of these other Virus Outbreaks like this one^^^

 

if we hadn't fed them fir 60+ years they wouldn't have multiplied so greatly either... and they would have learned to grow food or die trying...

 

In the early 70’s there were a lot of guys who had lived large then retired around people like them..My contacts w such were around Bragg…A group lived in Southern Pines and a larger grouping up towards Lillington…no way to tell if the stories they told were accurate….no Stolen Valor, these were the Real Deal…charter members of Delta,that sort..Mike Echanis was a regular..but they were BS artists too..anyway, I overheard two guys who knew /had worked with some of the Belgian paras who went in as relief/rescue…They were talking serious stuff about how the colonial Whites were treated..the movie mentioned above was prob made while the outrage was still fresh in The Worlds consciousness…I was barely 18 and only tolerated by these guys, mainly because of the people I was with and I certainly wasnt welcome to converse..they were mostly decent dudes and I could listen if I stayed quiet but I had an interest in Hoare and his antics and I wish I had paid more attention..Coulda, woulda, shoulda..🙈

 

One of these days, you gotta think favor would tilt in Africa's direction, but no.

 

Also look up the Movie Shake Hand with The Devil.

 

You’d think moving(or swimming) to America and seeing all the neat stuff here like clean and running water,toliets,food.. people would want to live better..somebody dropped trou the other day in our WM toy dept and left a big pile in the center of the aisle👀
No cams on the aisle but the AP guy said it was a very very black woman in some sort of robe thing in that vicinity…we had an influx of Sierra Leone and Cameroon folks lately🙈
They’re not capable of changing and adapting that much…

 

They usually credit the second generation with societal integration. The first generation has a habit of hanging onto the old ways.

That observation is the outgrowth of a failure to properly vet immigrants.

They should be well on their way to having a grasp of what they're getting into (customs and norms) before they ever set foot on American soil.

 

Can we please stay on topic? Post about the unknown disease outbreak, not the history or politics of Africa.

 

I believe they are calling it disease X, and it appears they're still having problems with mpox.

Maybe it's a variant of this...
About Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever | CCHF | CDC
or this...
History of Marburg Outbreaks | Marburg | CDC

Disease X is a term used by the WHO to represent a hypothetical unknown pathogen that could pose a serious threat to humans...

For all we know, it might as well be the Zombie virus...LOL

 

I believe they are calling it disease X, and it appears they're still having problems with mpox.

Maybe it's a variant of this...
About Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever | CCHF | CDC
or this...
History of Marburg Outbreaks | Marburg | CDC

Disease X is a term used by the WHO to represent a hypothetical unknown pathogen that could pose a serious threat to humans...

For all we know, it might as well be the Zombie virus...LOL

Reason #682 for countries having secure borders, thorough screening and complete background checks for visitors, tourists, workers and all immigrants.

 

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/mysterious-disease-x-spreads-in-democratic-republic-of-congo/news-story/c36205b5c82155c83f8e7a3770ff671b

They are still trying to establish what it actually is. Seems the local conditions are making it hard to get samples back to labs in reasonable condition to test.

Lots of samples testing positive for malaria, no surprise there considering the location.

 

After Covid, I'm not sure Bio labs are all that trustworthy.

It isn't that they would isolate and identify the pathogen causing the disease. I'm sure they would, it's what they could do with samples afterwards, that might be troubling. Like gain of function research...

 

That would be an ideal cover for a stateside biowar release. Just saying.

 

There's always some kind of "mystery" outbreak in Africa every year.. Weird pathogens never seen before seemingly By design 🤔

 

No sanitation system, open sewers, lack of basic medical care and worse, lack of basic personal care, primitive customs, rampant corruption, tribal rivalries, etc.

Toss on top, endless foreign aid evaporated any sense of personal responsibility. It’s amazing there are humans alive in some of those sun-Saharan countries.