It seems- no certainty just "it seems", that the #Hantavirus scare is winding down
Now back to our regular-
" #Uganda Bans Handshakes As #Ebola Response Measures Tighten"
😩 😩 😩
A note: it's different than hantavirus in that many more have died already (131 dead is the number I have seen in the latest news). But they aren't on a rich person's cruise ship, so it doesn't get enough attention
A handshake ban
#Uganda is not a rich country
They do what they can do
We, the richer countries, have to help
Just from a perspective of selfish interest that makes sense: a #pandemic doesn't care about national borders
And our stupid fucking orange pedophile convicted rapist godking killed #USAID
In fact, you can probably say the current #outbreak was helped along by the #USA abandoning prudent #international #PublicHealth
@benroyce @darth_hideout related summary
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/uganda-sees-spike-in-disease-related-deaths-after-elimination-of-usaid
Or have a quick look on IATI to see that Uganda data set. For starters filter for CRS Codes
12210: Health policy and administrative management
12281: Infectious disease control
72010: Emergency response
12299: Health, other multisectoral
https://data.humdata.org/m/dataset/66b331c1-80f4-42e3-950d-91e49d2fe167
In 2025, the Trump administration dissolved the $40 billion U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. Days later, an exemption for "life-saving humanitarian assistance" was issued. But what that included was not specified and aid for health programs has been drastically reduced. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Uganda where there has been a spike in disease-related deaths since the cut.
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