Dr. John Nkengasong

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208 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Then when the Ebola hit West Africa,

And I saw the disaster that it had created in Africa.

I told Dr. Frieden, who was the director of the U.S.

CDC at that time, that I wanted to go back and build the African CDC from scratch.

So I've never walked into a job that existed except this job that I am in.

Yeah, a lot of curiosity.

What is the problem?

Once I know the why, the how, I don't care about the how, I know I'll find a way to do the how.

It's always the why.

Why am I doing this job?

You're always motivated by that.

I was very curious about, yes, about the whys and about research, I mean, and answering questions.

I mean, when you are born out of poverty, because I was born from a family that was very poor and poor,

You grow up with a lot of curiosity.

You sit in the village and you see a plane up there flying.

That is the closest you saw a plane was a plane flying in the skies.

And you are looking, you put your hand on your forehead to shade the sun.

You look at that.

You ask questions of why is that plane flying there?

Okay, how is it going to land?

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