Usually, the USA would take the lead on making sure this doesn't get out of control. But today, we have inept, incompetent morons running the show and the USA has withdrawn from WHO. Get ready for things to get super stupid....THANKS filthy maga traitor CUNTS
A mystery disease has killed 50 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just hours after symptoms began.
The World Health Organization and doctors in the DRC said this week that the time between symptom onset and death was just 48 hours in most cases.
'That's what's really worrying,' Serge Ngalebato, medical director of Bikoro Hospital in the DRC, told the Associated Press.
Officials believe the outbreak began on January 21, and 419 cases have been recorded as of Monday. This includes 53 deaths.
According to the WHO's Africa office, the first outbreak started in the town of Boloko after three children ate a bat.
They died 48 hours after developing symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, a group of illnesses characterized by fever, bleeding, headache, joint pain, and other symptoms.
Ebola is one of the most infamous causes of hemorrhagic fever.
WHO officials also warned that the number of outbreaks from diseases jumping from animals to humans - such as by eating them - has surged more than 60 percent in Africa in the last decade.