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.
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.
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.
Don’t tell me what to do, you’re not my parental figure
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.
I’m afraid there may be a resurgence of the HIV denialism movement given that RFK is now secretary of health.
Because of widespread use PREP/PEP, there’s a growing number of people who stopped using any protection including the aforementioned meds…
That’s also an old Soviet intelligence classic, so I’d bet you’re spot on.
Given that he thinks HIV/AIDs is the result of Amyl Nitrate abuse already, he just has to say it official.
That quote doesn’t tell us anything about the incubation period unfortunately.