John McDermott
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167 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 1 Jun
John McDermott’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The world faces a huge task to combat the latest Ebola outbreak.
There is no vaccine for this strain and the on-the-ground realities make tackling it incredibly difficult.
So there's a growing recognition that both in Congo, where the outbreak is centered, and in the rest of the region, everyone is playing catch up.
All the numbers going around about this outbreak need to be treated with some caution.
And that's precisely because the virus has almost certainly been circulating in the Democratic Republic of Congo for at least a couple of months before it was detected.
Officially, the Congolese authorities reckon there are more than a thousand suspected cases and about 250 deaths.
Mostly in the province of Aturi, and
But firstly,
Those numbers are likely to be underestimates because of a shortage of testing capacity.
And secondly, and most worryingly, we are seeing signs of spread to other parts of the region.
A couple of other Congolese provinces, South Kivu and North Kivu, have detected suspected cases.
Uganda has had several cases as well.
And experts are almost certain that.
There will be cases in South Sudan, which is another country neighboring Ituri.
At the same time, we shouldn't become overly hysterical that this is about to turn into a global pandemic.
There have been some potential reports of cases being imported by Congolese travelers to, for example, Brazil, although, as I speak to you now, those cases have not been.
confirmed, the centre of the crisis remains the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the surrounding countries.
It is just hard to imagine a more difficult place to deal with an Ebola outbreak than Ituri, this province in the east of the DRC.
It is desperately poor.
There are a lot of refugees.
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