The interval between the onset of symptoms and death has been 48 hours in the majority of cases, and “that’s what’s really worrying,” Serge Ngalebato, medical director of Bikoro Hospital, a regional monitoring center, told The Associated Press.
The latest disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo began on Jan. 21, and 419 cases have been recorded including 53 deaths.
According to the WHO’s Africa office, the first outbreak in the town of Boloko began after three children ate a bat and died within 48 hours following hemorrhagic fever symptoms.
“Why do we send all these people food”
So they don’t have to eat fucking bats with covid-9000
It’s hard to explain international politics. This was a great example of doing it right.
covid-9000
Sweet name for a Nu Metal band
the first outbreak in the town of Boloko began after three children ate a bat
You’re kidding me
Inb4 congo virus lab conspiracy theory
EBFO? Eat a bat and find out.
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The interval between the onset of symptoms and death has been 48 hours in the majority of cases, and “that’s what’s really worrying,”
That’s also great news because it’s easy to identify infections, quarantine, and contain. What would be really worrying is a hemorrhagic fever with an incubation period of 5-21 days a la covid.
Just because they died right after showing symptoms does mean that’s when they were infected. Maybe you’re contagious for 3 weeks then cough twice and die.
Have a nice day.
Have a nice day.
I don’t think I will
Yeah no thanks, you have a nice day 🤣
Why don’t you both have a nice day? 😤
Don’t tell me what to do, you’re not my parental figure
Can’t we just have a regular old plague that kills like 30% of the population and not that sigma “I don’t really want to kill you” bullshit?
Covid was so annoying, because it killed too few people for many to care. I don’t want that again.
So i know (hope) this is satire. I’m also aware that people latch on to dumb things and propagate them, like Flat Earth and the like. So I’ll clarify that with a 2% morality rate there were literally dead bodies stacking up in the streets in NYC.
The only reason the right wing propaganda machine was successful in misinforming rural areas was because the administrations efforts to reduce/slow the spread of COVID, haphazard as it was, turned out to be successful in preventing mass deaths like that seen in NYC. And it was a close thing.
The thing is people are so goddamned gullible, so credulous of their media of choice, that a 30% mortality rate would only fuel more dumbshittery
If you’re really careful, you might see that I qualified that statement above
it killed too few people for many to care
The emphasis is there for a reason.
And BTW, that statement is not a joke, but based on actual study results. You know why? Covid having a 2% mortality also means it has a 98% survival rate - much much higher in younger healthier people. Exactly that was the problem. For the vast majority of people covid did not feel like a real threat, because it wasn’t. Long covid and the other long term effects only really came to light in 2021 and later.
I didn’t shelter in 2020 for myself, but for others. If there is no such thing a society, individuals will act like selfish assholes and don’t wear masks, get vaccinated, etc. If Covid would have caused widespread erectile dysfunction, the entire world would have been shutdown in 5min and nobody would even doubt masks.
WHO, governments, responsible media lost the war about representing and reacting to the pandemic right in most places and there weren’t much pushback against misinformation.
Salting the wound: after antivaxxing became a part of people’s identity, got coupled with their political views, the critical mortality rate to sober up the majority only grew higher.
Why yes, actually! The bird flu pandemic should be along any day now (just waiting on that one last mutation to be able to spread between humans), and that one’s projected to have a super-high death rate.
Bird flu could be that. By some estimates it has had a 51% mortality rate, compared to COVID’s 1-2%. But if it’s all the same to you, I’d still rather not. Maybe you don’t mind seeing those you care about die in pain, but some of us had enough of that a few years back.
Absolutely!
Another example is HIV: Initial infection is just a minor flu, you’re then infectious and active for 5-10 years before becoming seriously ill with AIDS (of course this is for untreated HIV). This allowed the illness to spread for decades adapting to humans before finally being identified in the 80s, killing millions.
That quote doesn’t tell us anything about the incubation period unfortunately.
Note to self: Do NOT eat bats. Even if Mom says, “We’re having bat tonight”.
I don’t like eating kale
you could eat balls instead
🎵 Say everybody have you seen my balls? They’re big and salty and brown. If you ever need a quick, pick-me-up, just stick my balls in your mouth 🎵
Suck on my chocolate salty baaaaaaaaaawllllsss
Based
I would also recommend not eating children.
Because of the diseases right?
Fuck yes! A deadly pandemic without long drawn out suffering? Sign me up!
Sadly, that makes this unlikely to go pandemic. If it kills too fast it can’t spread.
We’ll have to live a little while longer… 😒
This guy has definitely played ‘Pandemic’ the flash game
Until some poor sap examining the body gets a tear in his PPE and he gets the mutated version that turns him into a zombie
God damn it
Yeah those 48 hours don’t look too fun either though.
Feel awful for those affected.
We ordered the one that infects “red hat”, not “fed bat”. Blame a bad connection, but we’re not paying for this Congo Labs. Try again. (Edit: forgot /s)
I apologize in advance for my ignorance. But why do people like to eat bats? Are they particularly nutritious? Or is it a matter of access to foods and resources? Are they really yummy? And why didn’t Ozzy contract any weird deadly disease?
Because they need to eat.
Why do people eat chicken if there’s a risk of getting salmonella?
You cook it…
Yet thousands of people get salmonella every year from under cooked chicken and some die of it. Eating bat is the same, cook it correctly and it’s safe.
Why not eat something nice and normal instead of a bat though? I mean FFS
Why not eat something
nice and normalthat westerners think is normal instead of a bat though? I mean FFSFixed that for you. You know different regions and cultures have different norms for foods, right?
I’m struggling to think of a single component of a hot dog or sausage that isn’t “normal” to eat everywhere in the world except for reasons of religion and even then it depends on what meat was used to make it.
because you’re used to it.
Also, you replied to the wrong person
Lol wtf makes a bat not normal?
You ever eat a hot dog? Crazy stuff in there just as sketchy as bat.
have you tried bat?
Could be manna from heaven, for all you know
Unless you don’t eat meat you don’t have much of a leg to stand on right now
is it a matter of access to foods and resources
This is generally why people eat certain things, yes.
This is why we had programs like USAID. To keep people from starving and eating infected animals harboring endemic viruses we know nothing about.
Even in the US, it’s highly inadvisable to eat animals/bush meat infected with CWD even if it technically can’t infect humans …yet.
Pretty sure you eat anything possible when you’re starving, and these children may have been.
Guess I need to change my dinner plans for tonight.
Fuck! Dudes! I strictly repeated several times to not eat bats so we could prevent another covid! WTF was wrong with these people? Bat= not food!!! Other not foods include but not limited to Stork, venomous things, pets, people, clouds, poop, teeth, big cats, other cats, armadillos, rinos, elephants and other nature show animals. Food animals… Chicken, tilapia, cow, pig.
Now the next and most important thing to do is: 1) don’t go to Congo to see or touch or be near the dead. 2) don’t come back from Congo if you saw, touched or were near the dead. Easy peasy.
Obviously this was a mutant rabies virus. Let’s call it RabiesUltra25…RU25 for short. Thanks for reading! Look out! Behind you! Gotcha!
