Congo and Ebola, Sittin’ in a Tree
That whole “possible hemorrhagic fever killing loads of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo” thing? Turns out it is only Ebola. Phew. Big sigh o’ relief, huh? No further mention of chickens and pigs. Just a hundred or so people who got all dead from Ebola, about 400 infected.
There’s this (from the AP article on Google): “[Health Minister] Makwenge [Kaput] did not say whether the outbreak had been contained.” The number of infections is still rising, but the number of deaths is falling, now that everyone’s being taken care of.
I’m sure it’ll be fine. Ebola, so far, is so good at making people ill that they don’t get all that far before they, like, fall down, so the disease hasn’t managed to spread too far, not yet. Maybe it’ll get lucky someday.
That’s what all these bugs are tryin’ to do - get lucky.
That’s what every single alive thing is tryin’ to do - get lucky.
O, sigh.
I’m goin’ on a trip tomorrow, so I might not get back to you ’till late Wednesday, early Thursday. I will be hyper vigilant in my quest to acquire new information from the world of science while I am out in the big, wide world.
Until I return, avoid the Congo area if at all possible. Probably avoid it after I return, too, unless you’ve got a really good reason for going there. Bleeding out of one’s eyeballs, while good for dramatic picture taking, is not really a funtime. Not that I have experience with such a thing. I’m guessing. A hypothesis, let’s call it. All official and science-like.
‘night!
November 12th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
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