what you might not know: There is a new vaccine, and that seems to be working.
Isn't there a vaccine? Yes. It is 99% effective and more than 161,000 people have been given it. However, everybody is not vaccinated - only those who come into direct contact with an Ebola patient, and people who come into contact with them.
and another thing you might not know: There have been 1500 measles deaths in that area in recent months. and they have given over a million vaccinations in the area, and plan to give out another 2 million doses.
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Despite stepped-up mass vaccination campaigns in some provinces over the past few years, enormous challenges remain in some areas where insecurity, difficulty accessing vaccination sites, population movements, and resistance to vaccination are roadblocks to measles control efforts. Some of the same challenges have dogged the DRC's Ebola response, as well.
from AlJ:
'Stain of the century': US denounces China's treatment of Uighurs
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China 'home to one of the worst human rights crises of our time'...
Speaking at the US-hosted Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom conference, Pompeo also accused Beijing of pressuring countries not to attend the gathering.
yup. Don't want to upset the Chinese: their threats even make the US hesitate
The US has been weighing sanctions against Chinese officials over their policies in Xinjiang, including the Communist Party chief of the region, Chen Quanguo, but has held back amid Chinese threats of retaliation.
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Japanese anime studio was firebombed; many of the dead were in the stairways, suggesting the arsonist placed the gasoline there to deliberately kill those trying to get out.
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Strategypage discusses the danger of bombs: the ones that didn't explode, from the first and second world wars.
and they give an update on how to stop drones and drone swarms using microwave weapons.
terrorists using drones with bombs is a growing danger...
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Puerto Rican protests: the feds won't give them enough money,(of course, so they can blame Trumpieboy) but the last straw was finding the locals were diverting the aid money to their friends.
sort of like we see here: donors know the money is misspent or stolen, so hesitate to give more.
It's the corruption...
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Girl Scouts: It's more than cookies.
No, I wasn't a girlscout: They weren't in our area. Some of my friends however were in 4H...
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Don't use cockroach oil (it tastes lousy).
note: it's the elites pushing insects as food: few societies eat insects and those who do rarely use them as a major source of food.
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