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DesignInZeeWild t1_j3wpub5 wrote

So happy for this! Ebola is terrifying and deadly!

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[deleted] t1_j4d9t4i wrote

It was even more terrifying when it reached the U.S. in 2014.

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Truthhurts_69 t1_j3xh1e4 wrote

So there are no more active infections?

Or is Uganda similar to Russia in that they declare desires in the same way Michael Scott declared bankruptcy?

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FrankTankly t1_j3xo9q4 wrote

No new infections reported in 42 days, which is twice the maximum incubation period of the Ebola virus.

Of course it’s impossible to be 100% certain there aren’t infections that haven’t been caught, but it seems reasonable to declare the outbreak over with the information they have.

Source: the linked article.

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Truthhurts_69 t1_j3y5wpq wrote

That's very uplifnews to hear, hell yeah.

Hopefully nobody finds an old dead body and gets it again, this is a nasty disease

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Gremlin-Overlord t1_j3yozup wrote

If you ever want to read a great book about Ebola, I recommend reading The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

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SafariSunshine t1_j40h4aa wrote

You don't learn as much about ebola, but the mini series based on the book is also very good.

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Tx600 t1_j4r6ie3 wrote

Loved it. Thought he was great at building suspense even though we all know what happened!

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AlienKinkVR t1_j3z1dkb wrote

Curious if any of y'all know then - What are the natural reservoirs for the virus that could bring it about again?

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YourUncleBuck t1_j3zutmh wrote

Bats most likely. People gotta stop eating bats and probably other bushmeat as well.

https://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/stories-features/global-stories/ebola-reservoir-study.html#:~:text=Researchers%20believe%20that%20Ebola%20virus,has%20yet%20to%20be%20determined.

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NeuroticPsionic t1_j3yz7gn wrote

Took more than 10 whole years but finally. I wish the same happened to COVID.

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alphahydra OP t1_j40cnbe wrote

It's the end of a four month long outbreak in humans. Not the total end of Ebola, unfortunately (which has been around much longer than a decade), as there are natural reservoirs of the disease in animals.

The concern with this recent outbreak was it would run out of control and spread more widely than the usual range for Ebola, as happened with monkeypox. The good news is, it has now been contained and that's not going to happen. But Ebola still exists as a pathogen in the wild, and can pose a threat again in future.

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TwelveCoffee t1_j3zv5b4 wrote

Good to hear hopefully no one else has to suffer from this plague ever again

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wild_psina_h093 t1_j3zwfee wrote

Just now?

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OriVerda t1_j40inqc wrote

I feel this. It seems like it ended a long time ago but in reality news and media will cover something heavily in the first few days-months until something new comes along. I'm fairly certain ISIS is still up to no good and the Syrian civil war is also still ongoing but it's all about the Ukranian conflict now, a conflict which I think more or less started back in 2014.

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masonhil t1_j40sbem wrote

This is not the same outbreak from 2014 lol. There have been numerous smaller outbreaks since then. This one killed 55. Viruses mutate and it took a long time to create the vaccine.

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silentasarose t1_j3yz5s0 wrote

My brain straight up skipped “end to,” and I was SO confused for a moment.

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WonderfulMeet9 t1_j40ps88 wrote

Why didn't they declare the end immediately? So many people could've been saved.

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