Watching the clickbait floggers push panic about Ebola in #Congo and #Uganda.
Ebola is ENDEMIC in D R Congo and surrounding areas. Meaning it's ALWAYS there. Nearly every damn year there's an outbreak of Ebola. The virus is named after a river in Congo.
People there live in disturbing, crushing poverty. The lack of resources, knowledge, care and certain cultural practices means the hemorrhagic fever spreads, more than warranted by the zoonotic animal to human origin.
Stop the madness.
People now clickbaiting the specific strain of #Ebola, #Bundibugyo, shrieking about the WHO statement that there are "no vaccines or therapeutics".
Perspective. The ONLY vaccines for Ebola were "approved" under emergency use (2020), then "compassionate use" clause, last year (#PALM trial). They are either a monoclonal antibody (#Ebanga) or a cocktail of three monoclonal antibodies (#Inmazeb).
Both #Inmazebl and #Ebanga stated as specific for #Zaire strain of #Ebola - ahem, CYA - but even then their effectiveness is under 60%, at best (#PALM trial, 2019).
The "therapeutics" for ANY Ebola strain are the above drugs, basic barrier nursing, basic patient care, providing fluids, and managing hemorrhage/fever.
TL;DR IRRESPECTIVE OF STRAIN, Ebola cannot be strictly said to have any *effective* vaccine or therapeutics, anyways.
Don't add to the panic.
A somewhat dark factoid of the immense corporate CYA behind such drugs - here for #Inmazeb / #Ebanga - but alike in so many other drugs and vaccines for many hemorrhagic fevers - is that the adverse reactions to the drugs are vastly similar to the onset symptoms of the diseases. "fever, rash, muscle pains" are all common symptoms of most viral hemorrhagic fevers.
You KNOW they are tap-dancing when they start listing the disease's symptoms among possible side effects
Faraiwe