maybe a little further back?
2013-2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_Ebola_virus_epidemic
No, it wasn’t ebola!
https://reliefweb.int/disaster/ep-2018-000418-mdg
The recent out break I was remembering was the plague on Madagascar in latter half of 2018.
Maybe I better just lurk moar.
And I don’t believe Army went to Madagascar.
I remember the recent Army/ebola story also, you are not imagining it. I suppose its possible that some reporter was so bored or lazy that they reran an old story but that doesnt seem as likely as it being scrubbed.