Another era, another chance for the WHO to spread a disease from Africa to the whole world in order to lock it back down again. So many diseases that they make up or overexaggerate end up not being a thing because the disease doesn’t spread outside the tribal villages of Africa. The only way to escape is from the foreign tourists who go down there to record propaganda tapes to guilt-trip you into caring about sick African kids.

Covid came from a lab leak that ended up being transferred to the bat, which the Chinese people eat because it’s a delicacy. Villagers in the Congo also eat bats, which is leading to a new disease spreading.

CBS

A mystery illness has caused over 50 deaths amid multiple outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, doctors say.

At least 431 cases have been reported across at least two villages in a northwest region of the central African nation, according to the most recent bulletin from the World Health Organization’s Africa office on Feb. 16. 

Preliminary investigations traced the first outbreak to three children who became sick and died after eating a bat carcass, the bulletin says.

“What has many public health officials concerned is hearing that some of these kids who died consumed a bat carcass,” Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News medical contributor and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News, said on “CBS Mornings” Wednesday.

Bats can carry many different infectious diseases, including Ebola and coronaviruses, Gounder said.

I like how it took until Africans dying from a disease that came from eating bats for WHO alarmists to admit covid came from bats.

The science people tested these dying Africans and determined that this maybe is just Malaria that came from eating dead bats, but it doesn’t act like Malaria so it might end up being a new disease.

While preliminary investigations linked the first outbreak to children who had eaten a bat carcass, the exact cause of the outbreaks remains unknown, the WHO’s Africa office said. Additionally, because it’s unknown if the outbreaks are linked, there could be separate causes.

So far, testing from both clusters has come back negative for Ebola and Marburg, a similar viral hemorrhagic fever, the WHO said.

“All the testing we have that’s come back positive so far is malaria. So that is somewhat reassuring if this is an outbreak of malaria,” Gounder said on “CBS Mornings Plus.” “The question remains, why are people getting this sick and dying so quickly?” 

Further testing and investigations “are ongoing to determine the cause of illness and deaths in the two health zone,” the WHO bulletin said.

Infected individuals may be dying from sepsis, Gounder said, which is when the infection creates an inflammatory response in the blood.

“You’re not able to maintain your blood pressures, you start to have organ failure,” she said. “With all of these different infections, that’s sort of the end stage and how people die.”

Last year, another mystery flu-like illness that killed more than 143 people in another part of Congo was determined to be likely severe malaria.

These outbreaks happen every year in the Congo. No amount of money or aid is going to change their situation. Still, the WHO demands the world do something to stop this disease that only resides in some middle-of-nowhere part of Africa.

However, Gounder said the outbreaks highlight another concern: the public health impact of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization as well as cuts to federal agencies. 

“Should we be worried about another pandemic? Absolutely,” she said. “We have seen the emergence of infectious disease accelerate over the last couple of decades.”

And pulling back staffing, such as layoffs at the CDC or dismantling USAID, will make on-the-ground investigations more difficult, she said.

While the CDC is in communication with the Ministry of Health in the DRC, Gounder said, “It certainly makes it harder when we’re not part of the WHO team anymore, particularly in countries that are not very friendly, who are suspicious of the United States.”

The WHO said a lot of things that ended up being wrong. They warned that Ebola, Zika, and Malaria would be the new pandemic. They ruined the entire world through covid and now Trump finally decides to cut them off they get pissed.

There’s a high chance this becomes another nothing ever happens virus, and the WHO gets proven wrong again, which will show everyone how stupid that organization is.