Tag: ebola
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The map just changed The Numbers: A Threshold Crossed As of 20 October 2026, the DRC had reported 9,704 confirmed cases, including 4,687 deaths — a crude case fatality ratio of 48.3%. By 26 October, the country’s health authorities put the cumulative figure at 9,964 confirmed cases and 4,841 deaths, with a CFR of 48.6%.…
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Finland knows what is coming. The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (SUPO) has identified the FSB’s 16th Center as the actor behind a campaign of cyberespionage against Finnish institutions. Sandworm, another state-sponsored group, has targeted Finnish critical infrastructure through sophisticated campaigns, probing telecommunications and energy networks for long-term access. Conti, a ransomware developed by the…
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A stratified society does not only rank individuals. It ranks nations, and it treats the ranking as a theory of competence. When a country is perceived as a junior party in geopolitics — poorer, weaker, on the receiving end of aid, advice, and intervention — the people inside it are not addressed as colleagues. They…
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A follow-up dispatch — talk-radio format, statistical reality check Opening Monologue: The Numbers Just Moved Two weeks ago, we were working with a figure of 5,794 confirmed cases and 2,786 deaths. That was August 26. Today is September 13, 2026. And the numbers have moved. Hard. 7,022 confirmed cases. 3,398 deaths. And 1,671 people have…
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I. The Epidemiological Frame: A Door Closing on the Delayed Echo Every major Ebola outbreak leaves behind more than grief. It leaves behind a reservoir—a cohort of survivors who carry the virus in immunologically privileged sites for months or years, unaware that they remain infectious. The 2013–2016 West Africa epidemic, which produced over 28,000 cases,…
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An evidence-based exploration of rosemary, chicken curry, and the fight against Bundibugyo virus The Spice Route Let’s stay with that field nurse in the remote village for a moment. She’s already considered Prunella vulgaris tea with black pepper—a cheap, scalable, culturally acceptable adjunct. But now she’s looking at the spice rack. Specifically, she’s looking at…
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An evidence-based exploration of Prunella vulgaris, black pepper, and the fight against Bundibugyo virus The Scenario Picture this: You’re a field nurse in a remote village. The nearest Ebola Treatment Unit is six hours away by dirt road. Contact tracers are working around the clock, but the virus is spreading. You have PPE, you have…
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The Numbers We’re Not Talking About Let’s start with a number: 5,794. That’s the confirmed case count in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s 2026 Ebola outbreak as of August 26. Here’s another: 2,786 — the number of dead. Now let me give you a comparison that should make you sit up. In the first…