Seán Farrell

have taken measures to try and ensure the border is now being closed with DR Congo.

Although it is difficult, it is a long land border.

There's a lot of informal trading and travel across between the two countries.

But I would be much more concerned about

the future and further spread in Eastern Congo than I would be, for example, in Uganda.

It did.

It got a real head start.

I think there's two things here.

I think you're right that the particular strain, the Bundabudjo strain, doesn't have a treatment or a vaccine.

And the initial testing was for the Zaire strain, which does.

So it got a late start.

But I also think what this points to is just the aid cuts that we've all dealt with globally.

And now we're seeing some of the prices that are being paid around aid cuts.

You know, the Trump administration cuts

to the World Health Organization, to the CDC, the Center for Disease Control, and also the cuts that the local health systems have taken in countries like DR Congo has meant that this was caught late and also that the response to it is always going to be behind when you basically gut your health system.

So I think one of the reflections for us in Throkra has certainly been that these aid cuts that have been foisted on poorer countries

we're now really beginning to see some of the prices of these cuts.

We're not seeing anyone step in that can make up the difference to the level of what was cut in terms of the US cuts were draconian.

So was the UK cuts.

And what we've seen is countries across Europe follow suit in a series of aid cuts.