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DR Congo’s neighbors impose Covid-style measures in push to limit Ebola’s spread
“It has all the potential of being the worst outbreak,” said Ky Luu, president and chief operations officer for International Medical Corps, a nonprofit humanitarian organization that has already deployed four rapid response teams in the region.
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This is likely a warning to the world more than anything else. Because between 2013 and 2016 it killed 11,000 people that we know of in Africa then.
So, if this is potentially a worse outbreak than then how many people could it kill this time because this particular version has no vaccine and no real treatment with a fatality rate of between 30% to 50% of the people who test positive for it in the first place.
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