Ebola No reports of new cases of Ebola Sudan in Uganda, and we are getting to be well out of the incubation period. There is not much media coverage overall, but at least one Africa centered publication has called it and quotes a number of Ugandan government officials starting to take victory laps. While there …

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Socioeconomic Quick note with the holidays upon us soon. The last couple years we have mentioned in the run up to the holidays the increased chance that you will encounter friends and family for whom the accumulated wave of threats and shocks, from the pandemic itself to everything around it, as the our modern society …

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Ebola –Uganda appears to have finally received 1200 doses of an Ebola Sudan specific vaccine. However, we are coming up on two weeks without a new confirmed case, meaning the countdown to containment of the current outbreak is already underway. The standard operating procedures of contact tracing and quarantining appear to have won the day. …

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Ebola Better data and updates available this week. So the good news is we’re coming up on 2 weeks without a new confirmed case. The current thought on incubation period for Ebola is about 3 weeks, so we’re coming up an important milestone. That said, based on the “Ebola Jane” experience from the big West …

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Ebola –New cases are leveling off, but still occurring. Regardless, we’ll give a few more weeks to confirm that overall trend. The Ebola Sudan specific vaccines seem to be perpetually about to arrive in country “next week”–we’ll see when they actually get there. Meanwhile, Uganda is still doing well with contact tracing and quarantines of …

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Shorter update, typed faster than usual… but didn’t want to leave too much space from the last one. Ebola The Uganda outbreak continues to simmer along. The WHO remains rightly concerned about possible local spread, and Ebola is in major cities in Uganda, which is always dangerous. Most recent data is 136 confirmed cases with …

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Monkeypox –New monkeypox cases continue to collapse, and there is little to suggest at this point there will be a rebound rise. This outbreak, while a little unusual in geography and scale, turned out to follow the playbook of prior outbreaks, and is largely self-extinguishing after a few generations of transmission. So at least -one- …

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Monkeypox Surprise! Yeah, we’re going to mention this only to mention that cases are dwindling to almost nothing and we will soon be past the latest official WHO Global Health Emergency at this rate. Ebola Bad news is the outbreak continues, with at least one case in the capital city of Uganda. Good news is …

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Ebola –Yep, Ebola is back. After we went to “press” with the last update, a sample from a 24 year old citizen of Uganda (which sits on the eastern border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo) who presented with symptoms on 11 September was finally tested. Unfortunately, this was after he had visited at …

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Monkeypox Cases continue to dwindle away towards nothingness. We might follow for one more update, just to make sure there is no sign of a re-emergent wave, but for the moment, this epidemic of monkeypox appears to be current on its history. Pop up, infect some folks (in this case, quite a few folks), but …

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