The interval between the onset of symptoms and death has been 48 hours in the majority of cases, and “that’s what’s really worrying,” Serge Ngalebato, medical director of Bikoro Hospital, a regional monitoring center, told The Associated Press.
The latest disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo began on Jan. 21, and 419 cases have been recorded including 53 deaths.
According to the WHO’s Africa office, the first outbreak in the town of Boloko began after three children ate a bat and died within 48 hours following hemorrhagic fever symptoms.
“Why do we send all these people food”
So they don’t have to eat fucking bats with covid-9000
It’s hard to explain international politics. This was a great example of doing it right.
covid-9000
Sweet name for a Nu Metal band
It’s exactly nine thousand!
HAL was a virus the whole time
The interval between the onset of symptoms and death has been 48 hours in the majority of cases, and “that’s what’s really worrying,”
That’s also great news because it’s easy to identify infections, quarantine, and contain. What would be really worrying is a hemorrhagic fever with an incubation period of 5-21 days a la covid.
Just because they died right after showing symptoms does mean that’s when they were infected. Maybe you’re contagious for 3 weeks then cough twice and die.
Have a nice day.
Have a nice day.
I don’t think I will
Yeah no thanks, you have a nice day 🤣
Why don’t you both have a nice day? 😤
Honestly, every last one of you can go have a nice day, as far as I’m concerned.
Yeah, these kids could have been bat-snacking for quite some time before they came down with any symptoms. Or they’d eaten bats without problems before they lost “bat roulette” and ate one with this particular disease.
Absolutely!
Another example is HIV: Initial infection is just a minor flu, you’re then infectious and active for 5-10 years before becoming seriously ill with AIDS (of course this is for untreated HIV). This allowed the illness to spread for decades adapting to humans before finally being identified in the 80s, killing millions.
Just gonna tack on here that everyone’s favorite presidential whipping boy, ol’ Ronnie shithead Reagan, was partially responsible for allowing it to continue spreading. Hell, his press secretary or some equivalent laughed at the one reporter that actually asked about it and implied the reporter was a homosexual. He also abandoned his buddy Roy Cohn because of it too.
May he rot in piss.
That quote doesn’t tell us anything about the incubation period unfortunately.
The year is 2024.
Trump is elected president.
Somewhere in the world, a butterfly flaps to the left instead of the right.
A bat follows it.
RFK eats said bat.
Then he injects the butterfly
I see you read that article toi
RFK puts a second bat into a blender, then feeds bat soup to…
Brain worm
Chicken of the cave!
Note to self: Do NOT eat bats. Even if Mom says, “We’re having bat tonight”.
I don’t like eating kale
you could eat balls instead
🎵 Say everybody have you seen my balls? They’re big and salty and brown. If you ever need a quick, pick-me-up, just stick my balls in your mouth 🎵
Suck on my chocolate salty baaaaaaaaaawllllsss
(Base)d
I would also recommend not eating children.
Because of the diseases right?
Fuck yes! A deadly pandemic without long drawn out suffering? Sign me up!
Sadly, that makes this unlikely to go pandemic. If it kills too fast it can’t spread.
We’ll have to live a little while longer… 😒
Until some poor sap examining the body gets a tear in his PPE and he gets the mutated version that turns him into a zombie
gets a tear in his PPE
I winced. Is it confirmed it can be transmitted sexually?
I’m not sure if this is satire or not lol.
If not: https://www.osha.gov/personal-protective-equipment
If so, haha pp funny
Yeah, just a dumb PP joke, sorry.
lol no need to apologize, like I said, pp funny
This guy has definitely played ‘Pandemic’ the flash game
Specifically the flash version?
I guess not lol, but I did think it started as a flash game.
I believe you’re correct, though I haven’t played any version of it so I’m not an authority.
This was just meant to be a gentle ribbing, no worries about your actual level of accuracy.
God damn it
Yeah those 48 hours don’t look too fun either though.
Feel awful for those affected.
I’d rather have a few months of major discomfort than the two days of hard-core body horror that they just went through.
When this civilization falls and the next one is beginning there’s going to be a religious ban on eating bats.
If it flaps, you slaps. Amen.
Confused, currently fapping my slap.
The Bible already addresses this:
https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/what-does-the-bible-say-about-bats/
The earth will be ok. One day we’ll be gone and she’ll be just fine.
People say save the earth, save the earth. The earth is fine. The people are fucked. We’re going away, folks.
I’m pretty sure when people say that they mean “save the [current state of the] earth [so we can continue living on it together]”.
Frankly, she’ll be better off.
Its too bad I don’t care about the rock we’re floating around in space on and mostly care about me and my loved ones.
This is a dumb framing. People want to stop climate change to protect themselves and their loved ones from having to live in an inhospitable hellscape and doom humanity to extinction, not because of an emotional connection to the actual planet.
To me it’s ridiculous that we have no reverence for our actual, objective God: the living Earth.
All the fairy tale imaginary sky daddies people kill other people over while actively desecrating our factual creator with abandon.
We’re so weird. We have a creator. The natural world. And we’ve been in a hot war with that only actual God of humans for about a quarter millenia, lol.
We’ll lose handily. And life will go on.
There are definitely religious and spiritual systems that revere nature, like paganism. It’s the only thing that really makes sense to me.
That’s a generalisation.
Plenty of people have reverence for the natural world.
Certainly not plenty, given what’s happening.
And I don’t mean empty rhetorical reverence.
Reverence would mean having a zero to positive net environmental impact. Like the Native Americans. They weren’t perfect or necessarily peaceful between one another, but they practiced reverence towards the natural world.
Those with practiced reverence towards the natural world don’t fare well amongst our species. We take humble coexistence with the Earth as weakness like clockwork. We jail them for ecoterrorism and genocide their cultures because they get in the way of economic and population metastasis, sadly because we consider our God to be subject to us and not the other way around as we’re going to learn in the coming decades by our own actions and hubris.
I mean “learn” loosely. Sadly many wouldn’t admit to themselves we were wrong or abandon currency as their god even if a CAT 6 just hurled a bus at their head.
That’s subjective as it depends on your definition of reverence and of plenty.
That said, it’s a very good point you raised initially and I wholeheartedly agree that it’s a bit weird.
I agree that the natural world is, for all intents and purposes, analogous to a god.
I also agree that everyone, particularly the most pious of us, seem determined to disregard this god.
Religion is the wrong word, but I do wish that there was more focus on building appreciation for the natural world.
I’m reminded of the “solar punk” movement. There’s an instance slrpnk.net which collates some of these ideas.
Oh you didn’t need to tell us you care more about your stuff then anyone else’s, bud.
Fine, and the the innocent people on it. Jesus fucking Christ.
My point was that Earth itself is just an object with things living on it.
I might be aggressively fucking angry at like 90% of the voting eligible populace in America but there are a ton of other people that don’t fit into that category that don’t hold my ire.
None of us are innocent.
Shit, have I run into someone more misanthropic than I am right now? Neat.
A misanthrope that cares about “innocent” people? Seems fishy.
If you want to stay up for a few nights, read The Hot Zone, which is about Ebola. Those bats are gonna kill us all someday, and there are so many of them!
It’s not the bat’s fault really. If us humans would stop encroaching further into their territory and stopped warming the planet to the point of no return, we might not be having such extreme issues with zoonotic viruses we’ve never encountered before trying to kill us.
Don’t even need that much; just stop eating them.
If people aren’t living in the bat’s territory they wouldn’t be eating them either.
Fair.
Easy to say to starving children. (Which is what happened in op’s article)
Too bad there’s no one who could solve world hunger for 6 billon dollars…
Well I SAID should be sending them foo… Oh…
It’s the Congo.
King Leopold was one of history’s greatest monsters. Rubber tree plantations - they’d chop a hand off or worse if you didn’t make quota. (The Heart of Darkness, later retold as Apocalypse Now, later retold as Spec Ops: the Line.)
The region has been ravaged for the past two centuries. Remember Kony 2012? Those starving children could have been soldiers.
This has nothing to do with climate change that generic area of the world has always beet stock-full of nasty diseases. Even considered by African standards of unlucky geography the Kongo basin is triply fucked.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51N5u7HMbaL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg
This one will keep you up at night, it was SO fucking interesting. It’s basically a story about a crime fighter who goes in and solves really complex crimes…but all the crimes are weird diseases, like strange brain swelling diseases that are gonna kill a ton of people in the US, and the detective has to figure it out before a bunch of people die.
We have the technology to solve insane cases, but we are completely hamstrung by mentally deficient politicians like our current idiot and his party. And how we still prevailed despite their obstructions.
The image link is to the cover of The Premonition by Michael Lewis.
They had a previous outbreak in December that was diagnosed as malaria. This outbreak is not that one but malaria has not been confirmed as the culprit.
In any case, please don’t go to Congo to bring whatever it is to the rest of the world. Let WHO experts figure it out…if only a retard president had not pulled funding for that vital global health organization.
We can insult Trump without restoring to ableist slurs.
Speak for yourself. I’ll slur all his disabilities any chance I get.
I am thinking a Congo vacation might be the cheapest thing I can do to save America. Go straight fro the Congo to a Republican fundraiser.
I can think of cheaper!
I haven’t seen the r-slur used since the mid 2000s, and now suddenly it’s everywhere in the past 2-3 weeks. Why are we back-pedaling on even the most basic decencies?
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Literally society regressing in front of our eyes.
ate a bat and died within 48 hours following hemorrhagic fever symptoms
Are we seeing another Ebola outbreak? Or is this a different viral hemorrhagic fever?
All samples were negative for common hemorrhagic fever diseases, although some tested positive for malaria.
Looks like at minimum, it’s a strain of Ebola that’s different enough not to register on a test.
We should really stop eating bats.
spoken like someone trying to keep all the good bats for themselves
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I apologize in advance for my ignorance. But why do people like to eat bats? Are they particularly nutritious? Or is it a matter of access to foods and resources? Are they really yummy? And why didn’t Ozzy contract any weird deadly disease?
This is why we had programs like USAID. To keep people from starving and eating infected animals harboring endemic viruses we know nothing about.
Even in the US, it’s highly inadvisable to eat animals/bush meat infected with CWD even if it technically can’t infect humans …yet.
is it a matter of access to foods and resources
This is generally why people eat certain things, yes.
Pretty sure you eat anything possible when you’re starving, and these children may have been.
We ordered the one that infects “red hat”, not “fed bat”. Blame a bad connection, but we’re not paying for this Congo Labs. Try again. (Edit: forgot /s)
ITT: People that think only bats get human-transmissible diseases.
Exactly, it can go bat -> livestock/pet -> human just as well.
I’m just one person wondering why it seems like bats are involved so often in stories like this.
Because of the physiological and energetic demands of flight, bats are tolerant of a wide range of viruses.
Yeah who has ever heard of bird flu?
No, but they get some nasty stuff that if transmitted to humans more often prove lethal. It is due to bats having an incredibly high body temperature (even more so than most other flying things though most of them are high). Human fever really cannot compete with that and our bodies may just kill themselves with the viral response IIRC.
Unknown… Ate bat. The entire gebuz loving world said they wouldn’t eat bats anymore, but some kid somewhere in Congo found them tasty again. WTF! Bats look ugly for a good reason. They carry diseases! Stop eating bats! Eat chicken instead! Please eat chicken!
Seriously! Just ask your dad to run to Whole Foods, dummy!
That sounds like something a bat would say.
I’m not iii iii a bat! Are you some kind of penguin?
Shouldn’t be eating penguins either. But for different reasons.
Alfred! To the batmobile!
