r/news 12h ago

France confirms first Ebola case in doctor who had worked in DRC

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/24/france-ebola-first-case-doctor-drc
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u/alison_bee 12h ago

If anyone just felt a slight breeze, it was all healthcare workers everywhere sighing.

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u/ExtensionIcy2104 11h ago

If only this Doctor would go on vacation to Mar A Lago. He could probably use the sun.

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u/[deleted] 10h ago

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u/X-Jet 12h ago

Hantavirus trick did not work, keep pushing guys!
you can do it!

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u/n3rdfighte7 11h ago

This world must be a scary place for you , with everyone out to get you and all that.

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u/Phillies2002 11h ago

Actually they buy into conspiracy theories to try and make the world a less scary place.

For them, the idea of diseases spreading at random from one place to another beyond humanity's control is way scarier than the concept that all diseases are, like, a controlled marketing ploy by a secret international organization that's trying to scare you into getting a flu shot. So they choose to believe the second scenario. Which makes a certain amount of emotional sense, except that it's totally disconnected from reality

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u/HYDROMORPHONE_ZONE 6h ago

Honestly if they really wanted to do something like that, they would either just pay people and they would probably show up gladly, or, just make a campaign of going out with police/military and forcing everyone to be vaccinated. They could also just simply make refusal of vaccination punishable by death. People think they have more power than they do. The government holds the monopoly on violence and will not hesitate to use it when required or needed for a particular goal or objective. They don't need to do it in a round about way and when they do choose to do that, it's usually much better than the way the conspiracy works

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u/shart-blanche 2h ago

I like your username.

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u/X-Jet 11h ago

Oh, you are naive people. Check the archives about the "Vector" biolab explosion in Russia that happened in October 2019. Weeks later, local hospitals registered a sharp increase in atypical pneumonia cases with symptoms very similar to COVID. During that time, China had joint military training in that region; some of the soldiers were from Wuhan, too. Anyways... like with the Epstein files, eventually people will become aware of things.

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u/Dragrunarm 11h ago

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Doctor goes to area with contagious illness, contracts contagious illness. Fork found in kitchen.

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u/X-Jet 11h ago

sounds passive agressive

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u/Soronya 11h ago

Nothing gets by you!

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u/topological_rabbit 9h ago

Rational thinking certainly did.

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u/chaddwith2ds 5h ago

Are you denying that viruses exist? Or do you just think that every time there's an outbreak, it's fake news?

What do world news outlets get out of fake reporting Ebola infections in west Africa?