Ebola outbreak deaths top 1,000 in Congo amid clinic attacks

[Beet]

This is bad.

https://www.apnews.com/49fcb435740b4c5b88bab2a1c873b763

[Meclazine for Israel]

This country is one of the Belgium colonies that has been left crippled with violence.

Real sad.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

This country is one of the Belgium colonies that has been left crippled with violence.

Real sad.

Technically Congo had been the only Belgian colony per se (and only from 1908, being Leopold II's private property till that time). Ruanda-Urundi was formally a League of Nations (and then UN) mandate... which is mostly academic.

[Tintrlvr]

The "good" news is that the outbreak isn't accelerating; it's staying at roughly the same rate of infections and deaths. Which means that the outbreak is only continuing because of the extreme insecurity of the region, i.e., it's just another terrible thing (and hardly the worst terrible thing) happening in the Congo as a result of the total vacuum of government, not a pandemic. I bet way more than 1,000 people (probably more than 10,000 people) died in Kivu from malaria during the same time period.

[LoneStarDem]

I thought this Ebola crisis was over 5 years ago ?

[Crumpets]

I thought this Ebola crisis was over 5 years ago ?

Different Ebola crisis - the one in west Africa has effectively ended. This one was likely started by a separate animal-to-human infection.