{"id":522066,"date":"2026-06-06T18:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/522066\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T18:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:04:12","slug":"the-world-has-learned-from-the-last-ebola-outbreak-but-gaps-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/522066\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Has Learned From the Last Ebola Outbreak, but Gaps Remain"},"content":{"rendered":"

The response to the Ebola outbreak in East Africa, as troubled as it has been, offers signs that the world has learned key lessons from the last huge outbreak of the disease and from the Covid-19 pandemic, public health experts say.<\/p>\n

Their conclusion comes despite the fact the Bundibugyo species of the virus spread unidentified in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda for months, and that hastily erected treatment centers continue to lack even rudimentary medical supplies.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIf the world earned an F on the response to the West Africa outbreak \u2014 then we\u2019re at maybe a C+ now,\u201d said Suerie Moon, a global health researcher who led an international forensic review<\/a> of the response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which lasted two years and killed more than 11,000 people.<\/p>\n

Among the improvements, she and other experts say, are increased coordination and cooperation among governments and scientists, and more investment in the infrastructure to make fast science possible. Money has already been raised for research on potential vaccines and treatments for Bundibugyo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that we\u2019re even talking about clinical trials is a world away from where we were in 2014,\u201d said Dr. Daniel Bausch, who has responded to more than a dozen different hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in Africa over a career in infectious disease. \u201cWe have to remember that it\u2019s not all doom and gloom.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there are conspicuous gaps, notably in sustained funding for research into treatments and guarantees they will be available to anyone who needs help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The response to the Ebola outbreak in East Africa, as troubled as it has been, offers signs that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[78],"tags":[4204,225553,10723,35431,225555,18,136373,135,19,17,136777,225554,3497],"class_list":["post-522066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-africa","tag-africa-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-clinical-trials","tag-congo","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo-kinshasa","tag-eire","tag-epidemics","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-medicine-and-health","tag-united-states-agency-for-international-development","tag-world-health-organization"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116704488248477468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}