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Containing Ebola Is Hard. The U.S. Made It Worse
WHO says the rare strain has killed at least 139 people and left 600 suspected cases as aid cuts slow testing and contact tracing.
- As of Wednesday, the World Health Organization reported the Bundibugyo-related Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has killed at least 139 people, with 600 suspected cases.
- The rare Bundibugyo strain, first reported in Uganda in 2007, kills one in three infected patients and lacks effective vaccines or drugs, unlike the more common Zaire strain.
- President Donald Trump's administration slashed 90% of US Agency for International Development funding and 25% of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff; Elon Musk, then head of the Department of Government Efficiency , admitted to "accidentally" terminating containment programs.
- WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom warned that cases are rising as field operations scale up, while violence in North Kivu, South Kivu, and Ituri provinces complicates aid workers' containment efforts.
- Epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding warns we are "just scraping the top" of the outbreak, noting that containment success depends entirely on the "speed of deployment" for testing and contact tracing.
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Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in Congo highlights challenge of containing rare strain
Nita Bharti, associate professor of biology at Penn State, studies Ebola and says the death toll is probably much higher than we currently believe because it took longer to identify the outbreak and that allowed it to spread faster.
·Pointe-Noire, Congo (the)
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Rubio blames WHO for Ebola delay, as US aid cuts cripple public health in Africa
The Trump administration, having withdrawn from the WHO and cancelled more than 80 percent of US foreign aid, now faults the agency for responding too slowly to an Ebola epidemic its own cuts helped unleash.
·United States
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The Ebola outbreak now raging in Congo-Kinshasa and Uganda risks becoming one of the deadliest outbreaks. The dismantling of USAID is a contributing cause.
·Stockholm, Sweden
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