Declan Walsh
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486 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 8 Jul
Declan Walsh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We can't give it to all of our staff because simply we don't have it.
And frankly, they also said, we're not really trained for this.
We didn't receive any special training for this.
We were suddenly hit with this declaration of an outbreak.
And we are making do as best as we can.
But, you know, this young doctor who was bringing me around.
He was angry at his own government because it took the authorities so long to discover this outbreak, two, possibly three months after it started.
And he was also angry more broadly at the international system of Ebola response, that architecture of experts and aid groups and so on, because so few of them had reached this town where it started and where the greatest number of cases were.
Even though he was wearing the protective gear, I could see in his eyes and hear in his voice his intense frustration.
And as we were looking at this scene at one point, he turned around to me and he said, we are 12 days into this outbreak.
Is this the best we can do?
Part of the reason is to do with the virus itself, or rather with this strain of the virus.
Ebola is this highly contagious hemorrhagic disease, which is spread not like COVID-19 through respiratory means, but it's spread through touch, usually by touching bodily fluids of a person who is infected.
Now, this particular strain of the disease is called Bundy
budjoe it's named after in fact a town in western uganda about 60 miles from here across the border where it first occurred in 2007 and like all the viruses that cause ebola it's thought to reside in the fruit bat population and it just happens that there is a large fruit bat population that roosts in the trees in this region
But it is an incredibly rare strain of the virus.
This is only the third Bundy Bugio outbreak ever.
What that means is that as yet, there is not a vaccine or a cure for this disease.
On top of that, when Ebola spreads into a population, it often presents in people initially with symptoms that are very similar to malaria or typhoid.
Now, they happen to be extremely common diseases in this area.
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