3 hours ago, flaming dragon said:

 

You could have shown your foolishness with fewer words. Do you even know what endemic means?  Sheesh.  I meet few idiots in real life, now I know why: they're in this thread. 

 

Ebola is now managed as an endemic infection. It meets the definition for an endemic disease.

Ebola was previously managed as an irregular occurrence infectious disease. The 2011 epidemic of West Africa changed everything. Until then it had been treated as an unpredictable rural disease. then, in 2014, for 2 ½ years, ebola moved into the cities where it terrorized the urban landscape of West Africa. National quarantines both inside and at the borders of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia were the only thing that contained its spread. Had the USA and EU not intervened, it would have overflowed into the western world. By the time it was over, there were 11,000+ deaths and 30,000+ hospitalizations recorded. The estimated number of unrecorded deaths and infections is believed to be several times this number. Infections were not reported because of the stigma and the draconian  containment measures that would apply.

 

The disease is  managed as an endemic infection because it meets the criteria;

1.Geographic characteristic: Ebola is associated with specific African regions.

 

2. There is a continuous presence of infection. This is demonstrated by the DRC data;

The Democratic Republic of the Congo had experienced its fourteenth Ebola outbreaks since 1976, the last outbreak being the sixth since 2018 alone – the most frequent occurrence in the country’s Ebola history. Previous outbreaks in Equateur Province were in 2020 and 2018, with 130 and 54 recorded cases respectively. WHO 2022  Report. There are still ongoing infections today.

 

3.The introduction of new modeling methods based upon the research done over the past decade has allowed for a predictability analysis. In earlier years, it was an unpredictable disease. Not so today.

 

Read the most recent WHO: Ebola situation report DRC/25/03 - 28 September, 2025 and it  is obvious that this is a disease that has not gone away after previous outbreaks and that is endemic to countries such as the DRC.

17 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

 

Ebola is now managed as an endemic infection. It meets the definition for an endemic disease.

Ebola was previously managed as an irregular occurrence infectious disease. The 2011 epidemic of West Africa changed everything. Until then it had been treated as an unpredictable rural disease. then, in 2014, for 2 ½ years, ebola moved into the cities where it terrorized the urban landscape of West Africa. National quarantines both inside and at the borders of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia were the only thing that contained its spread. Had the USA and EU not intervened, it would have overflowed into the western world. By the time it was over, there were 11,000+ deaths and 30,000+ hospitalizations recorded. The estimated number of unrecorded deaths and infections is believed to be several times this number. Infections were not reported because of the stigma and the draconian  containment measures that would apply.

 

The disease is  managed as an endemic infection because it meets the criteria;

1.Geographic characteristic: Ebola is associated with specific African regions.

 

2. There is a continuous presence of infection. This is demonstrated by the DRC data;

The Democratic Republic of the Congo had experienced its fourteenth Ebola outbreaks since 1976, the last outbreak being the sixth since 2018 alone – the most frequent occurrence in the country’s Ebola history. Previous outbreaks in Equateur Province were in 2020 and 2018, with 130 and 54 recorded cases respectively. WHO 2022  Report. There are still ongoing infections today.

 

3.The introduction of new modeling methods based upon the research done over the past decade has allowed for a predictability analysis. In earlier years, it was an unpredictable disease. Not so today.

 

Read the most recent WHO: Ebola situation report DRC/25/03 - 28 September, 2025 and it  is obvious that this is a disease that has not gone away after previous outbreaks and that is endemic to countries such as the DRC.

Is this you?

21 hours ago, flaming dragon said:

 

You could have shown your foolishness with fewer words. Do you even know what endemic means?  Sheesh.  I meet few idiots in real life, now I know why: they're in this thread. 

Well tell us how it is that such distinguished Gentleman such as yaself a self noted Professor would say it 

You Sir are truly a noble man 

Beats me, they haven't isolated the first strain, how the duck can they isolate a variant? More fear mongering when thousands die from road deaths and loose cables in the street.Anyways what happened to the old flu we used to get?

On 9/30/2025 at 11:11 PM, spidermike007 said:

Who cares? Just another weekend strain of a flu. I'm much more concerned about catching it flu than I am covid these days, and I would never consider getting another vaccine shot. 

 

It is not a strain of the flu. Continually calling the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) an Influenza virus is ignorant. Do you call  a Volvo truck a sedan?