
Teresa Emmerling
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Teresa Emmerling
@sox2023
quote...All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing... And women...









The #Ebola outbreak in DRC & Uganda has multiple concerning features. First, introduction of disease into capital cities like Kinshasa and Kampala can amplify spread quickly. This was analogous to 2014 spread amplified in Conakry, Guinea and Monrovia, Liberia. This is why many of us were concerned about Andes Virus importing into a big city as well— the dynamics & risk change immediately. Secondly, when you have new cases unlinked to a known case, you have runaway transmission chains. Tracing becomes exponentially more challenging. The number of confirmed and suspect cases tells us transmission has been ongoing undetected for some time, likely weeks. Third, the Ebola species here- Bundibugyo- has only caused 2 outbreaks before. It is immunologically different enough from the Zaire species (for which we have monoclonal antibodies & vaccines) such that we really don’t have any effective approved interventions at this time.










