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... A revised WHO assessment has moved the risk level from "high" to "very high" at the national level, while risk remains "high" at the regional level and "low" at the global level, Tedros added.

WHO officials have acknowledged that a delay in detecting and responding to the outbreak enabled it to balloon, and that they are now racing to get ahead of the virus.

WHO representative Dr. Anne Ancia spoke during today's briefing from the DRC, saying that when officials got to the area, they found the virus was "already rampant and silently disseminating for a few weeks already." In the outbreak investigation so far, the earliest known suspected case was in a health worker, who developed symptoms on April 24 in Bunia, the capital city of Ituri. WHO only got word of a potential outbreak on May 5, with news of a cluster of deadly, unidentified infections that led to the deaths of four health workers. By the time a WHO team arrived, there were already 80 cases.

"Now we are sprinting behind [the virus] so that we can really try to control this outbreak, and because it is still transmitting for the time being, yes, the number [of cases] will keep rising for some time until we are really able to put all the response operation in place," she said. ...

@#3 ... Thank God the illegal DOGE morons gutting USAID and brain worm Kennedy and his dips*&^ lackeys destroyed the CDC while also pulling us out of WHO. ...

A blunt, yet succinct, summary. thx.

... Who knows, maybe an Ebola outbreak reaching the US is what's needed for the MAGA dumbf*&^s to ...

I remain to be convinced that MAGA is capable of changing its worship of Pres trump.

@#1 ... "Now we are sprinting behind [the virus] so that we can really try to control this outbreak, ...

Yeah, tha is the sentence that caught my attention.

The WHO apparently is saying that it is trying to catch up with the spread of the virus.

How is that A Good Thing?