For anyone going into tomorrow undecided or ambivalent… in Those Public Entries

There’s currently a Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda.

Marburg Virus Disease in humans typically has a mortality rate over 80%. It has symptoms similar to Ebola, and no approved vaccines.

And while the Rwandan government’s response to the outbreak has been exemplary (per NPR, link below), just consider that who is in charge of the health department matters, especially when we could be facing down one of the deadliest viruses in the world.

Oh, and according to Soviet defector and microbiologist Ken Alibek, before 1991, the USSR may have developed a biological weapon involving Marburg. A dirty bomb, maybe. Granted, there’s no definitive proof that Alibek’s claim is true, but do you trust Putin to (a) admit if he has a dirty bomb or biological weapons at his disposal, and (b) not use them if the worse comes to the worst? Or just because he wants to?

Think about who you want in charge of the CDC and NIH, should Marburg go pandemic.

NPR story: https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/11/01/g-s1-30948/virus-marburg-outbreak-rwanda-unprecedented-success?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us