The interval between the onset of symptoms and death has been 48 hours in the majority of cases, and “that’s what’s really worrying,” Serge Ngalebato, medical director of Bikoro Hospital, a regional monitoring center, told The Associated Press.

The latest disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo began on Jan. 21, and 419 cases have been recorded including 53 deaths.

According to the WHO’s Africa office, the first outbreak in the town of Boloko began after three children ate a bat and died within 48 hours following hemorrhagic fever symptoms.

  • @[email protected]
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    54 hours ago

    Its too bad I don’t care about the rock we’re floating around in space on and mostly care about me and my loved ones.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 hour ago

      This is a dumb framing. People want to stop climate change to protect themselves and their loved ones from having to live in an inhospitable hellscape and doom humanity to extinction, not because of an emotional connection to the actual planet.

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        49 minutes ago

        To me it’s ridiculous that we have no reverence for our actual, objective God: the living Earth.

        All the fairy tale imaginary sky daddies people kill other people over while actively desecrating our factual creator with abandon.

        We’re so weird. We have a creator. The natural world. And we’ve been in a hot war with that only actual God of humans for about a quarter millenia, lol.

        We’ll lose handily. And life will go on.

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      -44 hours ago

      Oh you didn’t need to tell us you care more about your stuff then anyone else’s, bud.

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        Fine, and the the innocent people on it. Jesus fucking Christ.

        My point was that Earth itself is just an object with things living on it.

        I might be aggressively fucking angry at like 90% of the voting eligible populace in America but there are a ton of other people that don’t fit into that category that don’t hold my ire.