From: slider@anashram.com

March 13.

More than 3 000 people worldwide have died of Covid-19 and almost 90 000 infected in over 45 countries – yet, one of the world's most vulnerable regions, sub-Saharan Africa, has so far been almost spared.

The coronavirus is spreading fast beyond its China birthplace but
sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world's most vulnerable regions, has so far
been almost spared - and experts want to know why.

More than 3 000 people worldwide have died of Covid-19 and almost 90 000 infected in over 45 countries.

Most of these have been in China, but cases are now rising fast in parts
of Europe and the Middle East, while the first infection in Latin America
was recorded on Wednesday, in Brazil.

But across all of Africa, just a few cases have surfaced - a tally that
has health specialists scratching their heads, given the continent's close economic ties with China.

"This is the question that everyone is asking, especially as other regions
such as South America or Eastern Europe now have cases," said Amadou Alpha Sall, head of the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, the Senegalese capital.

"The current figures could be the reality, it's hard to know. Maybe it's because Africa is not that connected."

Thumbi Ndung’u, director of a Durban-based infectious disease research centre, SANTHE, said "I don’t think anybody knows" why Africa so far
appeared to be unscathed. He also speculated that it could be "there isn't
much travel to that particular part of China from Africa – back and forth".

Or "it could just be a coincidence," said Ndung’u.

### - that was 10 days ago and cases have increased in these countries now
too, but not as fast nor as virulently as everywhere else thus suggesting
that countries that already use large amounts of these anti-malarial drugs
on a regular basis do indeed appear to be lagging behind the curve
compared to non malarial-infected countries that don't use them?
(interesting!)

trumpy's message today suggesting that you guys are now gonna be given
access to these compounds en-mass, the dumbass uk couple (one of which has
now died) self-medicating with chloroquine 'Phosphate' (a substance added
to fishtanks?) having apparently poisoned themselves by consuming a whole
gram of it each and only an hour later needing urgent hospitalisation...

so just make sure ya takes the right one when ya gets it ok? (laffing) :)

it's not being offered to us here in the uk (at least not yet anyway) so i guess we'll all be watching to see the result of this experiment you'll
all soon be taking part in? (hear-say they's gonna dump it in NY first i
think and test it out there...)

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)