{"id":111,"date":"2026-05-20T20:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alaskamovingnetwork.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:09:07","slug":"a-rare-ebola-strain-is-spreading-with-no-vaccine-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alaskamovingnetwork.com\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"A rare Ebola strain is spreading with no vaccine. Here&#8217;s what you need to know."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The number of Ebola cases has been growing \u2013 and growing by a lot \u2014 each day since the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency on Saturday. The latest toll? More than 600 suspected cases and 139 suspected-Ebola deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/alaskamovingnetwork.com\/?p=109\">Snag with Seward cruise dock reroutes ships to Whittier<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of the cases are in a province in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo \u2014 a remote place struggling after decades of bloody conflict. There are also two cases in Uganda&#8217;s capital. The World Health Organization has identified the strain of Ebola as a rare one and says the outbreak could have started months before it was detected.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;This is an example of a perfect storm,&#8221; says Dr. Abraar Karan, an infectious disease physician and faculty at Stanford University.<\/p>\n<p>\nSince it&#8217;s been more than a decade since the large West Africa Ebola outbreak, here is what you need to know about this virus and what&#8217;s on the minds of infectious disease experts as they look at the current outbreak.<\/p>\n<p><b>Where and how do Ebola outbreaks start?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nGeographically, this is easy to answer: <u>Ebola outbreaks<\/u> have almost always started in either east and west Africa. By far, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has detected the most outbreaks. This is its 17th since 1976.<\/p>\n<p>\nExactly how humans pick up the virus remains a question mark.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;We don&#8217;t know for sure where it comes from but we have suspicions,&#8221; says Karan, whose team has been studying Ebola and related viruses in Kenya for several years.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe leading guess, he says, is that people get Ebola from eating bat meat or being exposed to bat guano \u2013 or excrement. This could happen when miners go into caves.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;A number of animals have also tested positive for antibodies, so certain types of deer called duiker that eat meat have been implicated. Non-human primates have shown antibodies,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat tends to happen is that one person gets it from an animal \u2014 which is called a spillover \u2014 and then that individual spreads it to other people.<\/p>\n<p><b>What does the virus do to people?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nDr. Nahid Bhadelia cared for more than 500 Ebola patients in the West Africa outbreak a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;One of the biggest things I learned during that period of time is that there&#8217;s a whole range of presentations of Ebola. In some cases, it may present quite mildly, almost like a flu-like syndrome, and people get better,&#8221; says Bhadelia, who is an infectious diseases physician and director of Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe says in the early phases of the infection Ebola often resembles other infectious diseases, such as malaria and typhoid. Symptoms can include nausea, diarrhea and fever.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat&#8217;s concerning is what happens when the disease progresses \u2014 but it&#8217;s not the way it&#8217;s depicted in movies, like the 1995 film Outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;In many Hollywood movies, you may see Ebola portrayed as bleeding out of the eyes. I have to tell you, after seeing hundreds of Ebola patients, I have yet to see that,&#8221; says Bhadelia.<\/p>\n<p>\nInstead, she says, there are &#8220;massive amounts of diarrhea and vomiting&#8221; that&#8217;s often bloody. Many patients die from the body going into shock and organs shutting down, &#8220;driven by the immune system of the patient revving up in response to the virus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nShe points out that the likelihood of survival depends on how quickly the patient gets medical care as well as the quality of that care, which can include supportive care or even monoclonal antibodies. Monoclonal antibodies are artificially produced antibodies that mimic the body&#8217;s natural antibodies and help stop the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;In West Africa, we had a mortality between 50 to 70%,&#8221; she says. By comparison, Americans infected there and brought back to the U.S. for care saw mortality rates of less than 20%. &#8220;This really shows the difference in terms of good medical care as well as targeted therapeutics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>What&#8217;s known about this particular strain of Ebola?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nDifferent strains of the Ebola virus have different mortality rates.<\/p>\n<p>\nFor the Zaire strain, responsible for the large 2014-2016 West Africa outbreak, up to 90% of cases are fatal if untreated, according to the U.S. <u>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/u>. That&#8217;s the strain that took off in the West Africa outbreak but this eye-popping number is not the case for the Bundibugyo virus \u2014 the strain identified in the current outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;If there&#8217;s any upside to this, the data that we have on the Bundibugyo virus from previous outbreaks, the case fatality rate has been a little bit lower \u2014 not comfortingly low \u2014 but lower than some of the other strains or species of Ebola,&#8221; explains Dr. Daniel Bausch, visiting professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\nFrom past outbreaks, this strain seems to have a fatality rate of between 30 and 50%, says Bhadelia. However, the challenge is that there are only two known past outbreaks of Bundibugyo, so there&#8217;s not a lot of data.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe other big challenge is that there are no vaccines or specific treatments for this particular strain of Ebola. This stands in contrast to the Zaire strain of the virus, where there are two vaccines licensed as well as monoclonal antibodies.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe lack of medical options has worried a lot of infectious disease experts \u2014 but some are holding out hope. &#8220;That, of course, is an impediment but we&#8217;ve controlled lots of Ebola outbreaks in the past without having a vaccine or a therapeutic,rehydration,&#8221; Bausch points out. It&#8217;s only in the past handful of years that these tools have been an option for the Zaire strain.<\/p>\n<p>\nWithout such options, medical professionals rely on other approaches to containing the virus and caring for the patients, including supportive care such as rehydration. Bausch says control measures include very good infection control and something called <u>contact tracing<\/u> \u2014 tracking down people who&#8217;ve interacted with someone who&#8217;s been infected.<\/p>\n<p><b>How contagious is Ebola?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nFirst, the good news. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t transmit by the airborne route,&#8221; says Karan. &#8220;So, it&#8217;s not nearly as contagious as COVID-19 or measles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/alaskamovingnetwork.com\/?p=107\">Trump wants a more loyal Senate. Murkowski says he\u2019s sabotaging that.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nBhadelia says the data back that up: &#8220;The number of people that one person [with Ebola] infects is about two as opposed to measles where the number is about 18,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Measles is a lot more transmissible, although the mortality rate of many of the Ebola species is much, much higher.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nEbola typically spreads between people through contact with bodily fluids: saliva, blood, semen, diarrhea.<\/p>\n<p>\nPeople with Ebola are not considered infectious until they start showing symptoms. &#8220;As the person gets sicker, there is more virus in their bodily fluids,&#8221; says Bhadelia. She says this highlights why good infection control in the hospital or for caretakers at home is key \u2013 that&#8217;s things like gloves, gowns and masks.<\/p>\n<p>\nDeath does not end the risk. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of virus in those bodily fluids in cases where patients pass away,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Unfortunately, that is when they have the most amount of virus in their bodies, which is why safe burials were so important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the 2014-2016 West Africa outbreak, several calculations suggest that funerals and burial traditions were linked to well over 50% of the cases. For example, in Liberia and Sierra Leone, some mourners bathe in water that was used to wash corpses. Another tradition involves sleeping near the corpse for several nights, according to the <u>World Health Organization<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf a person recovers from the virus, there is also the chance the virus can hide out in certain parts of the body that are protected from the immune system \u2014 <u>like in semen<\/u>. This has been known to reignite outbreaks in the past and is one reason survivors have to be monitored in the months and years following an infection.<\/p>\n<p><b>Why have many past Ebola outbreaks &#8220;fizzled out&#8221;?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;So most Ebola outbreaks fizzle out,&#8221; says Stanford&#8217;s Karan \u2014 albeit not without a tragic cost in human life.<\/p>\n<p>\nThere are two reasons why. First, outbreaks usually occur in rural areas where there are fewer opportunities to spread the virus to others. The reason it seems to start in remote areas is because these communities tend to have more close interaction with wild animals.<\/p>\n<p>\nSecond, the virus is highly fatal, so when people get sick they often die before they can spread it very far.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe starts worrying when the virus gets into big cities.. That&#8217;s what happened in the 2014\u20132016 outbreak in West Africa \u2014 the largest Ebola outbreak on record. There were more than 28,600 cases reported and 11,000 deaths, according to the <u>World Health Organization<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd, Bausch adds, that with modern connectivity, road networks and centralized hospitals, you &#8220;can&#8217;t count on &#8216;burn out&#8217; these days&#8221; even if the outbreak starts in a remote area.<\/p>\n<p><b>What makes this outbreak worrisome?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nMany infectious disease experts are watching the current outbreak unfold with growing alarm.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;My concern is very high,&#8221; says Bhadelia.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat&#8217;s fueling that feeling?<\/p>\n<p>\nFirst, this strain does not have vaccines or specific treatments.<\/p>\n<p>\nSecond, this outbreak took a while to detect and has already crossed borders and spread to several big cities, including to Kampala, the capital of neighboring Uganda, and to the regional hub of Goma in the DRC.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;To discover so many patients in so many different cities and towns so far away from each other, it tells me this has been going on for a while,&#8221; says Bhadelia. &#8220;In many cases, when patients passed away their bodies were transported back to the homeland as would be expected culturally to be buried in their homeland.&#8221; She worries about how those bodies were handled and whether more people were exposed to the virus in that process.<\/p>\n<p>\nThird, the case count is growing rapidly and a lot of the tests are coming back positive for Ebola, suggesting the outbreak may be far bigger than what&#8217;s been detected.<\/p>\n<p>\nBhadelia is particularly concerned that some of the patients who have passed away were healthcare workers. &#8220;They&#8217;re like canaries in the coal mine. It tells you that a lot of patients are being seen who are Ebola patients that are not being diagnosed,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I think [the current case counts] are the tip of the iceberg.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nFourth, the area where this outbreak originated has many characteristics that can fuel the spread of disease. It&#8217;s remote and lacks good health care infrastructure. It&#8217;s a mining area with lots of migrant workers as well as international companies with workers who may travel frequently. And, it&#8217;s been plagued by conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to do contact tracing when there&#8217;s a lot of people with AK-47s around,&#8221; says Bausch. He says the typical public health measures work well &#8220;but employing them in this setting is not simple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThis has experts worried this outbreak will not be stamped out quickly: &#8220;My expectation is that we&#8217;re not going to be able to bring this outbreak to a close for quite a few weeks, if not months,&#8221; says Bhadelia.<\/p>\n<p><b>How concerned should people be outside of the region?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nKaran says he&#8217;s worried that cases could pop up in other countries and &#8220;I actually don&#8217;t think that the United States is really prepared to have a number of people coming back and quarantining here,&#8221; he says, pointing out that a specialized <u>quarantine facility in Nebraska<\/u> is already dealing with people who may have been exposed to hantavirus on a cruise ship.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut for the general public, Bausch isn&#8217;t too concerned.<\/p>\n<p>\nSince the virus does not transmit through the air and because patients only really spread the virus when symptomatic, he says caretakers \u2014 at home or in the hospital \u2014 are the ones at most risk. Even then, &#8220;you never have a situation [in the U.S.] where the healthcare workers say, &#8216;Well, we don&#8217;t have any gloves here. There&#8217;s no running water. There&#8217;s no soap,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe acknowledges that there could be some cases but &#8220;we&#8217;re not going to have a big Ebola outbreak in a high-income country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nSo for the friends and family members who have been calling him asking how risky this outbreak is, he has developed a stock answer. &#8220;Go get your flu shot and wear your seatbelt when you&#8217;re in a car,&#8221; he says, because those risks are far greater than their &#8220;extremely, extremely small&#8221; risk of getting Ebola.\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/alaskamovingnetwork.com\/?p=105\">A new Anchorage exhibit takes visitors inside an Arctic research vessel<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This outbreak is being called &#8220;the perfect storm.&#8221; How did it start, what are the characteristics of the strain that&#8217;s causing it and how much of a threat is it to global health?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A rare Ebola strain is spreading with no vaccine. 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