Covid, RSV and Dengue... and don't forget diarrhea

 

By the way: lots of covid, most recovering, but one, a young pregnant nurse who didn't get the vaccine due to pregnancy, died last week. Sigh. And a lot of toddlers sick with respiratory symptoms. Locals blame covid, but I suspect it is RSV, which is a bad but common virus that hits toddlers.

africa outbreak covid

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91 percent recovery rate.

But he also mentions Ebola is under control but now Marburg virus has broken out in west Africa.

when I worked in Africa, one of our nurses who survived an outbreak of hemorrhagic type fever and he was used to donate antibodies to try to treat cases

I thought this was Marburg, but apparently it was Lassa fever. LINK

and here is an article on the vaccine for that disease:

the reason DARPA invented the mRNA technology was to get a vaccine quickly for the next infectious disease coming out of Africa.

pdf link.

there is an experimental Marburg vaccine according to the 2010 article:

The experimental Marburg vaccine is based on a weakened vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) used to carry and display a component of the Marburg virus. VSV is an infectious disease of horses, cattle and pigs. Dr. Feldmann and his colleagues also have developed a similar experimental VSV-based vaccine against Ebola. Both vaccines are recognized by the same immune cells in the body as Ebola and Marburg viruses, activating the immune system to fight off the target virus.

drug use in the military

 discussed at StrategyPage

Wakefulness can be a potent weapon, especially for commandos or troops engaged in prolonged combat, like the Battle of Fallujah in 2004 and similar long-term and intense operations. Without these wakefulness drugs, you would have to either pull troops out of action so they could rest or leave them in and risk having them make fatal mistakes. Either way, you have a problem because there are never enough troops to get the job done. But with the wakefulness medications, you can solve the problem, for a few days, anyway.

Prolonged use of these drugs is not healthy. But neither is being drowsy during combat. 

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