Hana Quiros

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Radio Atlantic · What ‘America First’ Means for Global Health · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

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I think there are a couple of factors, but the biggest one is probably just that it was caught so late in its spread.

There was a lot of disease transmission that occurred before an international response was mounted.

Ebola was sort of, you know, this runaway train that was spreading through the DRC.

And then, you know, it's in an active state.

war zone, which complicates things.

There's, you know, there's not really any testing in refugee camps.

And it's also a gold mining town where the epicenter of the outbreaks where people just sort of come in and out.

So it's a place where people, Ebola was spreading and spreading to a lot of different places before we started trying to contain it.

And now it's just, you know, the response hasn't moved as fast as Ebola has through the country.

So it's primarily located in the DRC and specifically in the eastern DRC.

There's a health zone that's near South Sudan that has had its first cases of Ebola.

Uganda has had a few cases, but the outbreak there has been declared over.

They have a really robust health care system.

South Sudan, much less so.

So there's fear of that happening, but right now it's still within the DRC.

The one that's tearing through the DRC right now is a different virus entirely.

So it's the Bundabugyo Ebola virus.

And because of that, this virus has evaded, it evaded detection.

And that's a really big part of why it was caught so late.

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