–Yes, we have added bubonic plague to the update too.  Over the weekend, Chinese media reported at least one confirmed case, a farmer in a region that borders Mongolia, and as of Monday, it appears there is another case in a teenager that ate marmot meat. Again, and I cannot stress this enough folks, DO …

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Ebola– Now up to 25 confirmed cases, although data is lagging a bit.  There are 865 known contacts of confirmed cases, with a little over 90% being effectively followed up.  Only about 43% of the contacts have been vaccinated, despite 6,000+ people having now been vaccinated.  Arguably, they might already have it as they were …

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Ebola — The North Kivu province outbreak that we have been covering seemingly forever now has gone 41 days without a new case.  WHO officially considers this one closed (again).  Hopefully, the closure lasts longer than the previous one.  On the other side of the DRC, the Mbandaka outbreak is now up to 20 confirmed …

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—Ebola update:  Now up to 17 cases, with one 150 miles from Mbandaka and with no known contacts to the original transmission chains.  This suggests that transmission chains exist which have not yet been discovered.  A recurrent theme in all pandemics now is that there is “resistance” to some contact tracing and quarantine efforts.  923 …

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Ebola Update—  Now up to 12 cases in the latest outbreak, but still confined around Mbandaka.  Sequencing suggests this is a brand new outbreak, and not spread from the larger outbreak from the past year on the other side of the country.  They do have about 289 or so known contacts.  They have only been …

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Ebola—  Sadly, there is an update this week.  Although there are no new cases in the Kivu region of the DRC, where the 2019 outbreak was located, there are now at least 8 cases of Ebola in Mbandaka.  Those of you who are OGs on this list may remember that town from two Congo outbreaks …

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That was fast. So overnight, the data used in the Lancet publication on hydroxychloroquine has come under serious question.  In short, reports in UK media this morning (here at least) that Australia happened to notice that the deaths attributed to Australia in the study during the time period studied were -higher- than what Australia actually …

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—Ebola:  Is again short.  No new cases this week.  They never did find the definitive source of the last mini-outbreak, which is mildly concerning, but only mildly.  Fruit bat for all we know.  Of course, after “Plandemic”, we cannot rule out a subtle ripple of the fabric of space and time either.  Anyways, there were …

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—Ebola is again short, and WHO is again late with their report.  No new cases from what I can gather, and most of those under surveillance as known contacts should be wrapping up in the next week or two.  As COVID starts to roll through Africa, this may get a little more dicey. Coronavirus—Lot to …

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Ebola and Coronavirus Update —Ebola again, because it’s quick.  No new cases.  A few hundred contacts still being followed, only about 80% of whom have been vaccinated.  A little under 100 are especially high risk, having come in contact with body fluids from one of the recent known patients.  So it continues to go.  The …

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