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Posted on 06/28/2026 6:31:08 PM PDT by dynachrome
The U.S. CDC raised its response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo to its highest level on Friday, but said the risk of the disease spreading in the United States remained low. The move, reserved for the most severe health crises, signals growing concern over the rare strain's rapid spread.
The outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola has infected over 1,200 people in Congo, including 321 deaths, and 20 cases in neighboring Uganda, reaching the highest first-month total of any episode of the disease, the World Health Organization said this week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised its emergency activation to Level 1, its most severe designation, which is reserved for critical emergencies and assigns the largest number of staff possible to work the response. Previous Level 1 responses include Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the 2009-2010 swine flu outbreak, the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and the 2016-2017 Zika virus outbreak. The CDC has deployed 19 staff members overseas so far to assist its country teams with the response on the ground, Dr. Satish Pillai, the incident manager for the CDC's Ebola response, said in a briefing.
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France has its first case … just saying
Historically one of the CDC’s greatest and least trumpeted benefits has been in its response to infectious disease outbreaks in third world countries. Controlling and limiting an epidemic overseas rather than waiting until it reaches our borders has probably saved many American lives. CDC employees who get assigned to this (thankless) task are usually less well paid short term employees associated with the EIS (Epidemic Intelligence Service).
Remember when Obama tried to bring Ebola here?
I have no problem with that as long as patients and possible exposures stay over there. Quarantines work.
Before you know it, they’ll crank it to 11.
Sorry CDC. I have absolutely no faith in anything you say.
Wear a mask.
Oh no not ebola, wait didn’t Onama let some ebola cases in the US for treatment....mmm.
CDC? Eat me...
No, he let them in, period.
There were no travel restrictions though there should have been. Luckily even with letting some Africans in who had been exposed (and the one got violently ill outside in Texas where he stayed before he died), the last thing I heard was a nurse who was helping got it and was isolated in VA outside DC. Not too much happened.
But unlike COVID, Ebola is no joke. It might not be as contagious, but it’s much more deadly. The COVID HYSTERICS ONLY WISHED COVID WAS as brutal.
Two years of crying "wolf" have made many deeply skeptical of any real alarm.
That sounds like a variation or consequence of "gay" sex.
The problem with Ebola in Africa is ignorance.
1. Family members must refrain from physical contact with the dying and deceased.
2. Isolation of the infected is essential for containing the spread. Also, temporary isolation for family members that were in contact with the patient. They might have it also.
Think of Ebola like it was a Cobra. Get to near and it will kill you.
The above will stop the spread.
The problem with Ebola in Africa is ignorance.
1. Family members must refrain from physical contact with the dying and deceased.
2. Isolation of the infected is essential for containing the spread. Also, temporary isolation for family members that were in contact with the patient. They might have it also.
Think of Ebola like it was a Cobra. Get to near and it will kill you.
The above will stop the spread.
It COULD, but for your first sentence.
These Africans aren't really 'ignorant' of the advice from CDC, Medical Doctors, etc. They have been told, but they choose not to believe. That problem must be solved or your #1 and #2 won't happen.
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