An unknown illness has killed over 50 people in northwestern Congo. That's according to doctors on the ground and the World Health Organization on Monday.

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.

  • Allonzee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Certainly not plenty, given what’s happening.

    And I don’t mean empty rhetorical reverence.

    Reverence would mean having a zero to positive net environmental impact. Like the Native Americans. They weren’t perfect or necessarily peaceful between one another, but they practiced reverence towards the natural world.

    Those with practiced reverence towards the natural world don’t fare well amongst our species. We take humble coexistence with the Earth as weakness like clockwork. We jail them for ecoterrorism and genocide their cultures because they get in the way of economic and population metastasis, sadly because we consider our God to be subject to us and not the other way around as we’re going to learn in the coming decades by our own actions and hubris.

    I mean “learn” loosely. Sadly many wouldn’t admit to themselves we were wrong or abandon currency as their god even if a CAT 6 just hurled a bus at their head.

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      That’s subjective as it depends on your definition of reverence and of plenty.

      That said, it’s a very good point you raised initially and I wholeheartedly agree that it’s a bit weird.

      I agree that the natural world is, for all intents and purposes, analogous to a god.

      I also agree that everyone, particularly the most pious of us, seem determined to disregard this god.

      Religion is the wrong word, but I do wish that there was more focus on building appreciation for the natural world.

      I’m reminded of the “solar punk” movement. There’s an instance slrpnk.net which collates some of these ideas.