Hana Quiros

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

they want to fight against because if people you have a much better chance of surviving if you're treated earlier in the disease progression so there's a lot of fear I think 90% of people are dying before they ever reach a hospital you know according to the World Health Organization and also just like cultural practices and in the DRC like funerals are a multi-day affair where you celebrate the life of the person you you touch the body and

that's a major way that Ebola spreads.

So this like very basic cultural practice, you know, like imagine your mother died and you think of, you know, you think about there's this way that you honor her before, you know, you put her in the ground and you can't do that anymore because of a virus.

You know, it reminds me of COVID in a lot of ways in the way that, you know, there's disruption, there's a lot of suspicion.

Some people think it's a hoax.

But yeah, it's just caused a lot of disruption in the DRC.

So there has been in some cases.

I think most people in the Congo don't think that Ebola is a hoax.

There was a survey recently that I think 30% of people thought that it wasn't a real disease, which is significant, but it's not the majority of people.

But Ebola treatment centers have been...

burned the people there are teams that are they're called safe and dignified burial teams and they they go out and basically hazmat suits and then they they will base if someone's tested positive they'll go to their home and try and disinfect everything so that bodily fluids that can transmit Ebola don't infect other people and then they sort of wrap the person up in a special tarp and

They try to bury them in a way that ensures the disease doesn't spread.

Those people have been attacked because they're highly visible.

And I think from the perspective of someone in the DRC, you're much more likely to die from the conflict that's happening there or from malaria or from malnutrition, issues related to displacement than you are from Ebola.

but when an Ebola outbreak spreads, there is, you know, this parachuting in of international aid, which is, you know, apt to make sure that the spread doesn't continue.

But if you look at, like, even the worst case scenario, there are, you know, in the minds of some people, you know, there are bigger fish to fry.

And so I think that there is a lot of gratitude, people that are cooperating.

There's a lot of really great, like,

radio programs that have positive public health messaging, but there's also a lot of distrust and just wariness of how much people's daily lives have changed.

I hope so.

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