Ebola hemorrhagic fever

Hey, listeners, it's Lindsay Smith-Rogers.

Ebola is spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where conflict and instability are making it difficult to contain.

The outbreak is now the second largest on record and could surpass the devastating 2014-2016 epidemic in West Africa.

Today, Stephanie Desmon talks with virologist Daniel Bausch, who has spent decades responding to Ebola, about why this outbreak is so challenging and what it will take to stop it.

Let's listen.

Daniel Bausch, thanks so much for joining me.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

So you've spent decades responding to Ebola and other emerging infections around the world.

So if anybody wants to come visit me in La Paz, there's a new Hilton in town.

According to Travel Market Report, airlines are urging the CDC to delay or scrap the new inbound passenger declaration mandate for Ebola.

The new mandate issued by the CDC comes in response to a severe Ebola outbreak overseas and applies to everyone flying into or connecting through the U.S., including American citizens.

It means that all travelers will have to complete a digital form stating they haven't been to the DRC within the last 21 days, and airlines will be tasked with collecting and retaining the forms for weeks after the flight.

Our high note today is also from Travel Market Report.

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And then talking about viruses that I wish we had vaccines for, I do want to talk about Ebola because Ebola outbreak is still happening.

And this story kind of caught me off guard because I didn't realize that we were close to 10,000 cases of Ebola and that they are reporting that 5,000 people have died.

That is an insane outbreak.

And I just feel like because of everything going on in the world, it's hard to always keep our attention on things that go out of the news stream.

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when young scientists are finding cures for cancer.

Treatment for Ebola.

That's not really making the news.

It's like, you might see it on a TikTok, or you might not, but it's not hitting the mainstream news the way that I can ask almost any child about anime.

I don't care if there's a smallpox outbreak.

I don't care if there is an airborne version of Ebola ripping through the jail.

She should not get bail.

Move her to a different facility.

I know that that is when you see blood coming out.

I know that that could be Ebola, those kind of things, or something else that induces it.

And my sense is there's an induced scenario coming from the inside out.

The inside out.

We need the funding returned to people and projects where the funding was cut.

I mean, goodness gracious, how about we get USAID back up and running? We've got this massive Ebola outbreak happening in Africa that we have not been helping with At all.

We got to undoge the government.

We have to undoge the government.

Pope Francis.

Ebola fighters.

Angela Merkel.

Donald Trump.