Dr. Steven Novella

And while it's less deadly,

than the Zaire and some of the other ones.

It's also one that does not have a vaccine and does not have any specific antiviral treatment, so it's supportive care only.

And we're getting, I read different numbers, and although everyone says these numbers are definitely an underestimate, like we are not capturing all of them, but I'm reading numbers between 800 and 1,000 cases,

And 75 to 100 deaths.

So we're kind of at that level, which is a big outbreak for Ebola.

Yeah, we've had some big outbreaks in the last 10 or 15 years.

Many thousands, many times more than what we're seeing right now.

But we're cracking 1,000 with this.

So this is getting into, again, one of the bigger ones.

Prior to that, like a 40 or 50 people, that's an outbreak.

Now it's routine that it's hundreds and cracking 1,000.

And in the DRC, this is their 14th recorded Ebola outbreak.

I should mention that this is not a disease that we have the ability to eradicate because it has a lot of animal vectors.

Mm-hmm.

So it just basically exists in the jungle, and every now and then it's going to break out into the human population.

What's the risk for the general public?

Well, the World Health Organization has now recently declared this a health emergency of international concern.

That phrase may sound familiar to you.

You may have heard that in the early days of COVID-19.