{"id":38357,"date":"2018-09-27T05:59:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T10:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38357"},"modified":"2018-09-27T05:59:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T10:59:27","slug":"a-perfect-storm-is-surrounding-one-of-the-worst-ebola-outbreaks-in-history-in-the-drc-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38357","title":{"rendered":"A \u201cPerfect Storm\u201d Is Surrounding One of the Worst Ebola Outbreaks in History in the DRC Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/perfect-storm-ebola-history\/\">A \u201cPerfect Storm\u201d Is Surrounding One of the Worst Ebola Outbreaks in History in the DRC Right Now<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"m-f\"><\/div>\n<p>An Ebola outbreak that has been going on in the Democratic Republic of Congo since August is already one of the worst in history \u2013 the 7th worst to be precise \u2013 and it looks like it may spiral out of control. Peter Salama,\u00a0WHO Deputy Director-General for Emergency Preparedness and Response, called the situation \u201ca perfect storm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unrest and war in the region combined with community resistance and mistrust of medical personnel are making it difficult for the World Health Organization to get a handle on the outbreak. Dr. Salama said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are now extremely concerned, that several factors may be coming together over the next weeks to months to create a potential perfect storm. A perfect storm of active conflict, limiting our ability to access civilians, distress by segments of the community, already traumatized by decades of conflict and of murder\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026We\u2019ve seen attacks now on August 24, September 3, 9, 11, 16, 21 and most recently and most dramatically September 22 in the city itself of Beni,\u201d he said. He said that Beni was the base for the agency\u2019s base for the \u201centire operation.\u201d\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/democratic-republic-congo\/ebola-hit-drc-faces-perfect-storm-uptick-violence-halts-who\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The outbreak is based in North Kivu, which is on the border of Uganda and Rwanda. Violence has displaced more than a million people in the area, and there have been a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/en-us\/news\/briefing\/2018\/8\/5b7fc5ef4\/spiralling-violence-puts-millions-risk-ebola-hit-eastern-drc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brutal machete attacks against civilians<\/a>. Things got so bad that the WHO was forced to cease their operations for an entire week while the Ebola virus spread.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the armed groups in DRC which pose a threat to civilians and the international response to Ebola, the ADF \u2013 Allied Democratic Forces \u2013 has sufficient military capacity to ambush blue helmets from the UN\u2019a Stabilization Mission in DRC (MONUSCO) and government forces \u2013 the FARDC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201cPerfect Storm\u201d Is Surrounding One of the Worst Ebola Outbreaks in History in the DRC Right Now An Ebola outbreak that has been going on in the Democratic Republic of Congo since August is already one of the worst in history \u2013 the 7th worst to be precise \u2013 and it looks like it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6156,2413,223,21929,5756,878,10233],"class_list":["post-38357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-daisy-luther","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-ebola","tag-emergency-preparedness-and-response","tag-the-organic-prepper","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38358,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38357\/revisions\/38358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}