Hana Quiros
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first heard Aug 2026
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Because the machines that were being used to test for Ebola
were giving back negative results because they were looking for one Ebola, not all five of them.
So that's one way that this outbreak is different.
We don't have the regular arsenal of vaccines, treatments.
diagnostic capacity that we know works.
And then in terms of the actual scale, so now the outbreak is over 3,000 cases and it's very nearly the second largest Ebola outbreak in recorded history.
And the big difference is that this is the fastest moving Ebola outbreak that we've seen.
So there's an explosion of cases that's happened within a very short period of time.
Again, we're not really sure what the period of time is.
We don't know who patient zero is in this outbreak.
So yeah, that's I think the main differentiator.
You know, I was speaking to a woman at Doctors Without Borders who's coordinating their response to the outbreak in the DRC.
And she was saying that like the current case fatality rate is like 40%.
She talked about a mother.
that showed up to an Ebola treatment facility with symptoms and with two kids.
And because of delays in testing, you know, it can be 48 hours, 72 hours before you get a positive or negative result.
So there's a question of like, oh, like, you know, where do the kids go while you're waiting?
If you're at home with a fever, you know, you might be hesitant to go to this place where, you know, almost half of people don't come back from.
So I think that, you know, there's this perception that the Ebola treatment wards are like places where you go to die.
And healthcare workers have said that that's really something they...
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