World Health Organization officials estimate there are at least 500 suspected cases of an Ebola outbreak in Central Africa. Dr. Tom Frieden, a former director of the CDC and the founder and CEO of Resolve To Save Lives, joined Forbes’ Maggie McGrath to talk about why this outbreak could be “potentially devastating.”
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These are such ridiculous questions. Of course Americans should be worried. We are not closing the borders. Flights are continuing. Meanwhile, people are coming in and out of Africa. All it takes is one person to bring it to the states. Why would we not be worried. I’m terrified. May God protect us.
Any microbe is infinitely smarter than the current US administration.
Whatever.People die.Life goes on.
The World CUP needs to be delayed and stopped, it has the potential to be a super spreader event. The threat is real and what is being done is to little and to late. The virus will do what it does and spread as much as it can, for that is what it does.
TRUMP HAS WEAKENED AND DESTROYED PUBLIC HEALTH FOR QUICK TERM PROFITS>>>>ALL FOR THE GREED OF MONEY AND POWER>>>>>>
Thanks Trump, Musk and big balls.
Now only China can lead. US is no more hope anymore.
bad omen bad people
its mozart
mozarts ghost
Covid was initiated in Wuhan in October 2019 – Only being formally declared in January 2020. Let's have a look at what major event happened in Wuhan in October? The World Military games! Which then diffused the virus globally. I know this as a fact as I worked in Oman and two member of my SLT were in Wuhan in October; they arrived back in Oman and were hospitalised within days. A week later over half the school was sick and had to close down (months before the WHO declaration) so, what massive event is happening in the USA this summer: The World Cup!
The Democratic Republic of Congo have their national team based in Houston for this event. Do you see where I'm going with this..? Now, look at the front cover of the The Economist for 2026 and tell me what you see!
Not another Covid. Ebola is extremely fatal, no treatment, no vaccine. Highly contagious, watch the 2014 documentary of the out of control African outbreak. Almost everyone died.
Fear propaganda
I think the outbreak going unnoticed for so long likely has more to do with the fact that it's mostly occurring in a war zone than anything else. As much as globalists would like to blame America.
2 months knowing the possibilities and boarders remained open
Politics,politics,politics…
Gain of function
Hoffentlich wieder ein lockdown 🙏🏻🙏🏻🏠🏠🏠🏠
😂😂😂😂
Trump doesn't stop failing
So, why did they discover this outbreak so late? Underfunded, 16-18 month….i wonder what (or who) happened during that time range ?🤔
A new movie? PANDEMIC 2? who believes to the new pandemy? Need to sell vaccines?
Congo athletes, staff, and families are arriving in Houston Texas June 10 as their home base during the world cup. This is an unnecessary risk to our city and country.
Shut down all of the labs using animals as test subjects!
Wouldn’t it be nice if the governments we pay taxes to could prevent an outbreak from entering our country.
Population control.🐩💨
Ever since the buIIshit coronavirus dictatorship, it is extremely clear that the World Health Organization is too corrupted to "fix", and thus must cease to exist entirely. Now that these monsters spread viruses artificially and intentionally so as to get their funding back, G-d will punish them in due time.
They USAID , WHO shouldn't have been corrupt
What about France,Spain,Itally,Germany, South America,Mexico, Canada. All of Asia.
So the rest of the world does nothing and thats ok?
Why didnt you say the US is sending military?
How many counties in the world are sending military?
Are you scared to speak up about the world?
Why doesnt France protect the world? Or Spain or Italy?
Politics over safety. Sounds like a winner.
Great report
If only these people with all their talk and "knowledge" would take their selves over there and volunteer instead of complaining about things, maybe something could get accomplished. Why do they just whine about not having any money? They seem to have all the answers, just shut up, pitch in, and get to work!
"Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)—a group linked to the Islamic State—has severely disrupted medical response and containment"
Hanta not scary…. ok… ebola, thats the new threat to steal Freedoms!
I WILL NOT COMPLY WITH SHUTDOWNS OR SHOTS!
Suspected deaths, LOL, never a straight answer, they either died or they didn't. And the Senior Editor… A Forbes order following puppet, couldn't tell the truth if she tried. they lie for a living.
There you go… the WHO mentioned on every single vid. Criminal WHO. And Hantavirus just up and disappeared like a fart in the wind. What's coming next?????
CDC are literally the enemy
If you search "Former CDC director on Ebola outbreak" you will get a full list of videos from numerous "former CDC directors" all saying the same thing in the past 24 hours. This is what is called a "forced read," and falls under the "centralized messaging" principal used in communist nations and dictatorships.
In no time in US history have retired CDC directors ever been "forced" to read a script, thus these guys are all toeing the party line. This means, a huge pandemic is coming. Not to the Congo. Not to Tanzania. Not to Madagascar. Not to Somalia. To New York City.
Don't forget, once COVID had one single case in Canada it took less that 24 hours for a case to appear in New York City and then Los Angeles 48 hours later and by day 7 there were hundreds of thousands of COVID cases. Which is impossible for a pandemic, but nothing about COVID was real anyway.
The only thing real about COVID was US Patent # US 2018/0127837 A1. That is the US Patent for the SARS CoV-2 Expression Vector, what gave us COVID. And Expression Vector is how they get a virus into the cell through armored RNA (which is impossible without engineering the virus). Ebola has more US patents than all Sony PlayStation consoles combined.
The last 24 hours and all these "forced reads" from the "Ebola outbreaks risks" narrative is your warning. Another pandemic is coming to the US. You allowed it once before; you will allow it again.
What's with the politics? I thought, being a doctor, he would stick to the science.