Ebola Crisis Is Exploding Toward the Deadliest Outbreak Ever While Containment Is Straight Up Collapsing

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IRC is screaming this one is smashing every record if it keeps going.
Treatment tents torched for the second time this week — 18 suspected cases just escaped into the crowds.
1,000+ cases already, no vaccine for this strain, 40% death rate and climbing. Trump’s team is building a full quarantine camp in Kenya and Rubio just drew the hard line: zero cases enter America, period. This isn’t slowing down.
It’s breaking loose and the borders are slamming shut for a reason.
We’re watching the next nightmare unfold live.

Ebola outbreak could become ‘the deadliest on record,’ IRC warns

The outbreak has seen over 900 suspected cases and 223 suspected deaths.

LONDON — The New York-based International Rescue Committee (IRC) aid organization warned on Tuesday that the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring Uganda is now spreading faster than responders can contain it and risks becoming “the deadliest on record” without urgent international action.

What is especially alarming, the IRC said, is that the outbreak is no longer limited to remote areas of the DRC’s northeastern province of Ituri, the epicenter of the current epidemic.

Cases and contacts are now spreading into larger regional hubs, the IRC warned, including the major city of Goma in the DRC’s eastern province of North Kivu and also Uganda’s capital, Kampala, with fears of much wider transmission.

RFK Jr’s CDC issues “urgent request” for volunteers to go to airports to screen passengers for Ebola after cutting CDC staff by 30%

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent an “urgent request” to its workforce to recruit personnel to help screen passengers coming from Central Africa for any potential signs of Ebola illness, according to an internal email to staff obtained by ABC News.

The email was sent by acting CDC Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. An HHS official confirmed the authenticity of the letter to ABC News.

CDC staff are being recruited to these airports across jobs series and pay grades, according to the email, including public health advisors and emergency management specialists as well as licensed medical providers.

These staff will work to observe passengers for any signs of illness, check temperature for signs of fever and refer any ill passengers for further assessment.

The request comes as the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts in the federal workforce have reduced the agency’s staff by nearly 30% since last year.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) aid organization warned on Tuesday that the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring Uganda is now spreading faster than responders can contain it and risks becoming “the deadliest on record” without urgent international action.