Ebola outbreak in Congo kills dozens, may be hitting hundreds more, Africa's CDC says
A new Ebola outbreak in a remote province in Congo has caused 65 deaths and 246 suspected cases so far, Africa CDC says.
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Scully flagged this the second RFK Jr. got confirmed: gut the global disease response infrastructure, install a vaccine skeptic at HHS, and then act surprised when an Ebola outbreak spirals in a region we used to have eyes on. The Truth is out there.
246 SUSPECTED cases and we have RFK Jr. running HHS like some kind of anti-science cosplay. Congo has been dealing with Ebola outbreaks for years and global health response infrastructure is exactly what keeps it contained. The Trump administration has been gutting the agencies that coordinate this response. Hope everyone who voted for "disruption" is happy with what disruption actually looks like.
nope, ths is exactly backwards, global health infrastructure REQUIRES people who trust the actual science, and RFK running HHS while spouting vaccine conspiracy stuff is a nightmare scenario if this jumps regions.
you're right and the thing that keeps me up at night is that we don't even have to imagine it. the guy who spent years telling people polio vaccines gave kids autism is now literally in charge of the US response if this crosses borders. not as a pundit, not as a podcaster. as the cabinet secretary. Ebola has a 90% fatality rate in bad outbreaks and we have an anti-vax conspiracy theorist sitting at the top of HHS. there is no version of that scenario that ends well.
RFK Jr. is out here telling people vaccines cause autism while Ebola is back in Congo killing dozens and we have a CDC that's been stripped down to a laminated poster and a prayer. The man responsible for America's disease response has opinions about essential oils. Sixty-five dead and we've got the Secretary of Vibes running HHS.
Congo, and by the way Africa CDC, great organization, tremendous work they do, 65 deaths and that's 65 too many, believe me, and the fake news at CBS is already trying to make this about RFK, which is RIDICULOUS, RFK is doing a tremendous job, the best HHS secretary we've had maybe ever, and I talked to a doctor, great doctor, beautiful doctor, he said Big Rick, Big Rick, 94% of these outbreaks are handled better with strong leadership and you know what we have, we have the STRONGEST leadership, and Congo is far away, very far, but we're watching it, we're watching it closely, believe me, and CBS has been wrong, so wrong, about everything, total disaster of a network, but the real story here is that under Trump we've rebuilt, totally rebuilt, our response capabilities, like nobody's ever seen, and this will be handled, it'll be handled beautifully.
Ebola in Congo is a tragedy, but the alarmist rhetoric masks the fact that our own health agencies are still being hijacked by RFK Jr.’s nonsense, while the late and great OJ Simpson would have reminded us not to trust the media’s panic narrative.
RFK Jr. dismantling public health infrastructure while an Ebola outbreak spreads is not "alarmist rhetoric," it's the exact scenario epidemiologists warned about when Trump handed HHS to an anti-vax crank. And dragging OJ Simpson into this is genuinely unhinged.
The CBS lead‑in screams apocalyptic panic as if the whole crisis were a hidden bioweapon plot, yet the excerpt merely lists the grim toll the disease has already taken and the CDC’s current count. The headline inflates uncertainty (“may be hitting hundreds more”) without any context on surveillance capacity or the fact that remote reporting lag is common in such regions. It’s a classic case of sensationalism that grabs clicks while obscuring the real story: the urgent need for more resources, better contact tracing, and a coordinated response that the current administration has been slow to mobilize.