Backup in case 'Hantavirus' doesn't pan out for them?

BREAKING: An American doctor working in Congo tests positive for Ebola and is headed to Germany for treatment, the CDC says. https://t.co/AzVetsTwus

— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 18, 2026

100% this registers -1000 on my give a S meter.

Oh yeah, they're pushing this **** all over the place trying to scare people. These things have always been around and the hantavirus is not going to affect that many people. They're making me sound like everybody and their dog can get it. And I would say that 99.9% of the cruise ships are fine too. And sadly, they always have Ebola in that part of the world. It's just gearing up to freak gullible people out. You know the ones still wearing masks.

This particular strain has no approved treatments or vaccines. (It's not a new strain, just less common.)

Ebola-Zaire is the more common one which does have treatments. Not to say they won't work or help with the current outbreak, but it will be a shot in the dark.

Didn't this happen last atrump presidency?
I remember a nurse or doctore in Dallas getting treatment.

Ebola is terrible, but if you remember that last big outbreak basically none of the Americans who made it back to the us for treatment ended up dying. Some of that was maybe thanks to some experimental last gasp treatments, but I think a lot of the fatalities are because of a complete lack of modern healthcare in the places outbreaks happen

That was in Dallas as I recall.
Before Trump, it was in 2014. Didn't Google deep enough to recall how it got over here

Kenneth_2003 said:

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That was in Dallas as I recall.
Before Trump, it was in 2014. Didn't Google deep enough to recall how it got over here

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The guy who brought it to Dallas came here via a commercial flight, knowing he had been exposed to the virus. He gave it to two nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Thankfully they did not spread it to anyone else, despite one of them being a total moron and traveling from and back to Dallas while sick.

All of the others who came here were brought to the US via medevac flights.

One non-citizen, but a permeant US resident married to a US citizen, was also brought to the US for treatment, but was already extremely sick and didn't survive.

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The World Health Organization declared a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda to be a "public health emergency of international concern" on Sunday.

However WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed in a statement it "does not meet the criteria of pandemic emergency" and advised countries against closing their borders.

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World Health Organization declares Ebola outbreak in Congo a global health emergency

Ebola only kills a little more than half the people it infects. Don't close your borders because this isn't a danger to spread death and destruction worldwide like Covid-19 did!!!

/s

annie88 said:

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Oh yeah, they're pushing this **** all over the place trying to scare people. These things have always been around and the hantavirus is not going to affect that many people. They're making me sound like everybody and their dog can get it. And I would say that 99.9% of the cruise ships are fine too. And sadly, they always have Ebola in that part of the world. It's just gearing up to freak gullible people out. You know the ones still wearing masks.

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Agree. Ebola has been around forever, particularly in that region. There are many types of hemorrhagic fevers with different lethality and infection rates. While I admire Doctors Without Borders they assume that risk.

There are so many innoculations they can take before serving as a hands on physician in that region. The rest of the pestilence there, they rely on the good fortune and the grace of God. Which is okay with them. I respect that as well.

Best wishes and prayers.

Maroon Dawn said:

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Ebola outbreaks in the Congo happen all the time. But much like Hanta, it's too deadly to be the type of pathogen the elites want because it burns itself out too quickly because it's super deadly

They want a virus like COVID that isn't any deadlier than the flu but that the media can convince you is as deadly as if Ebola suddenly went airborne (which is exactly what they did with COVID, treat the flu as if it was airborne Ebola super AIDS

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I know 2 people who died from Covid, and 6 who were hospitalized from it. I don't know anyone who has died from the flu, and just 2 who were hospitalized from it. The Covid numbers happened in 2 years. The flu numbers are from 30+ years. It wasn't ebola, but it was worse than the flu. Although for me personally it was somewhere between the flu and a sinus infection.

Who cares

Ogre09 said:

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Maroon Dawn said:

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Ebola outbreaks in the Congo happen all the time. But much like Hanta, it's too deadly to be the type of pathogen the elites want because it burns itself out too quickly because it's super deadly

They want a virus like COVID that isn't any deadlier than the flu but that the media can convince you is as deadly as if Ebola suddenly went airborne (which is exactly what they did with COVID, treat the flu as if it was airborne Ebola super AIDS

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I know 2 people who died from Covid, and 6 who were hospitalized from it. I don't know anyone who has died from the flu, and just 2 who were hospitalized from it. The Covid numbers happened in 2 years. The flu numbers are from 30+ years. It wasn't ebola, but it was worse than the flu. Although for me personally it was somewhere between the flu and a sinus infection.

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On average 30 to 60,000 people would die in Texas with the flu every year before Covid.

But as with Covid, many of them were usually already compromised or elderly. Not all of them of course, and that didn't happen with Covid either. Sometimes diseases that have been around For a long time will kill some people for different reasons. It's certainly sad, but it's not the gotcha that the left is trying to push.

My heart breaks for anyone who loses a loved one or a family member to a disease that is not typically fatal. It just truly sucks.

Thunderstruck xx said:

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100% this registers -1000 on my give a S meter.

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Perhaps they could go on a "fact finding" trip!!!

apparently the Congo soccer team is headquartering in Houston for the World Cup