Emmett Livingstone
speaker
496 appearances
51 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 4d ago
Emmett Livingstone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 49 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 28.
Appearances
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is seeking to rally those confronting the outbreak.
Congo's health minister, Roger Kamba, criticized what he called alarmist views regarding the outbreak, saying Ebola will be stopped within about six months.
For NPR News, I'm Emmett Livingstone in Kinshasa.
What would you build on a piece of land when all the normal rules go out the window?
On the ground in Mongwalu, the gold mining town in eastern Congo at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, doctors say they're having a hard time.
Some people think the disease is fake, and the town's hospital was attacked several times last week.
This is making contact tracing, which is a crucial part of controlling Ebola's spread, extremely difficult.
Complicating response efforts further is insecurity.
Militia groups plague much of a Turi province where there are the most cases.
The WHO's director-general describes the situation as a quote, "...catastrophic collision of disease and conflict."
On the ground in Mongualu, the gold mining town in eastern Congo, at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, doctors say they're having a hard time.
Some people think the disease is fake, and the town's hospital was attacked several times last week.
This is making contact tracing, which is a crucial part of controlling Ebola's spread, extremely difficult.
Complicating response efforts further is insecurity.
Militia groups plague much of Eturi province, where there are the most cases.
The WHO's director general describes the situation as a, quote, "...catastrophic collision of disease and conflict."
The immediate priorities are containing the virus, and that requires PPE, a ramping up of testing capacity, isolation units and tracing known contacts of suspected Ebola cases.
There are major gaps in diagnostics, delays of days in confirming cases who are showing symptoms, which is slowing a response.
Thank you for having me.
Catastrophic is the word that really sums it up.
Showing 361–380 of 496 · page 19 of 25
← Previous
Next →