Pro-lock Virologist warned Donald Trump When he takes power, he will face many infectious diseases.
Dr. Peter Hoetz comments as Congo is on ‘high alert’ After a mysterious respiratory virus killed nearly 150 people, mostly young people.
United Nations health officials were sent there to control the outbreak and prevent it from becoming a global crisis.
Dr. Hotez, a leading proponent of lockdowns and mask orders during the Covid-19 pandemic, has warned that there are at least nine infectious diseases currently in the U.S. that could cause another pandemic – and pleaded with the Trump administration not to cut funding for disease research.
Scientists are now warning that it is on the rise. Bird flu Issues in animals Leakage in peopleAlso a Regrowth in measles And dry cough Associated with reduced vaccination rates.
In an interview with MSNBC News“That’s why we need to worry about this,” Dr. Hotez said. We have some great images coming down the pipeline.
On January 21st, all that fallout from the Trump administration is coming. We need a really good team to tackle this.’
Dr Hortez’s comments came hours before the Congolese government’s health minister warned the country was on ‘high alert’ over the ‘unknown’ outbreak.
Pictured above is Dr. Peter Hotez speaking on MSNBC about the dangers.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), at least 376 people have already been reported infected with the disease in the southwestern province of Kwango.
Children between the ages of 16 and 19 are the worst affected, with patients suffering from a flu-like illness with fever, headache, cough, shortness of breath and anemia – or a lack of red blood cells.
A World Health Organization A team has been sent to the area to examine the samples and identify the cause of the disease. It is expected that they will announce the results of the exam in the coming days.
“We are on high alert,” Congolese Health Minister Roger Kamba said at a press conference today. We consider it an epidemic that we should monitor as much as possible.
Speaking about how the disease can spread between people, he said, “We more or less call it respiratory.”
But he added that this is still a ‘hypothesis’ and the country is still awaiting the first results of the trial.
Officials initially indicated that 143 people died of a mysterious disease Officials have apparently reduced the toll to 71 deaths.
These are 27 people who died in the hospital and 44 people who died in the community.
Among the people who died in the hospital, 10 died of blood loss and 17 died of respiratory problems, the health minister said.
Most of the cases are in late teens, between the ages of 15 and 18, according to the BBC.
According to Dr. Annie Rimon, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has worked in the Congo since 2002. NBC News Diagnosing the disease can be complicated by health problems in the local population, including malaria and malnutrition.
The doctor pictured above is seen talking to a patient in September this year about treating monkey disease in the South Kivu region
The map above shows the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the province of Quang Ninh where the outbreak was recorded.
‘I think it’s important to know what’s going on, and I think it’s important not to panic until we get more information,’ she said.
She added: ‘Anything can happen. ‘It could be influenza, it could be Ebola, it could be measles. At this point, we really don’t know.’
Dr. Krutika Kupali, an infectious disease expert and associate professor at Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, said it was difficult to determine the cause of the disease at this stage because only general symptoms were reported.
‘We need more information,’ she told DailyMail.com, adding that ‘the information currently available talks about a lot of diseases’.
Asked if it could be monkeypox or Ebola, she said: ‘In their reports, we haven’t seen any reports of skin rashes or skin abnormalities – which go along with mpox.
‘Usually with viral hemorrhagic fevers (like Ebola) you hear reports of coughing up or throwing up blood, and that’s not reported.’
She added, ‘The reports are concerning, but we need more information and more information about the signs on the ground.’
While Dr. Hotez warned of outbreaks of infectious diseases yesterday, he did not elaborate on the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo during his interview with MSNBC.
The image above is from today’s press conference in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It shows Roger Kamba, who heads the country’s health department
He said: “I’m very concerned about[H5N1]it’s in wild birds in the western United States, and going north it’s getting into poultry.
We’re still seeing occasional human cases, not yet human-to-human transmission, but that could happen. It’s in cattle, it’s in milk, and this is just the beginning.
He continued: “There could be another major coronavirus in Asia. We had SARS-2 in 2002, Covid-19 in 2019, and we know that these viruses are jumping from bats to humans thousands of times a year.”
But there is still more. Where I am here in Texas, we know that we have a big problem with mosquito-borne viruses all over the Gulf Coast.
And all of this is on the rise in vaccine-preventable diseases, in part because of the anti-vaccine movement that is now so popular.
In the past year, 15 cases of measles have been reported in New York State.
He warned that all of these threats will be brought down on the Trump administration when he takes office on January 21, the day after his inauguration.
Trump has nominated vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services, which must still be confirmed by the Senate.
He pledged to cut spending on research into infectious diseases and instead reallocate the money to address the nation’s chronic disease epidemic — the rising rates of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity.
