David Jones

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Today with David McCullagh · Ebola outbreak risks being worst on record · 27 May 2026 podcast

But it's also on this major commercial corridor, which is part of the reason it's spread across to Uganda so quickly and also spread as far south as places 700 kilometers away.

away from the actual epicentre.

But it's a very busy place.

There's lots of interconnectivity between the different towns and locations, lots of busyness, lots of movement, and that's what makes this even more concerning.

Absolutely.

And that's exactly what we've seen with these cases popping up at very large distances from the epicentre.

I think it's been very far and wide, most likely because of where it's actually situated and the business of it.

Some of the symptoms can take a while to come through and then actually having the right testing equipment to be able to identify this properly is a major issue.

A lot of the initial symptoms are very, very similar to a lot of other very familiar diseases from malaria to dengue fever to even the flu.

Some of these can be mistaken for other diseases unless there's a high alert.

And that's probably one of the reasons it's led to a slight delay in the announcement.

I think that's led to some elements.

The issue is we've only seen this variant twice before in 2007 and 2012.

The last one actually led to a mortality rate of 50%.

So one in two people who actually contracted the disease died from it.

But as a result, there's no drugs, there's no vaccine for this particular strain, whereas there is for the one that was

more widely known for the impact on West Africa, for example.

Absolutely.

It's absolutely clear that the population, both in Ituri and in neighbouring North Kivu, where we've got a number of our bases, the majority of our bases and our work is done, there's a huge amount of concern amongst the population currently.

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