{"id":506871,"date":"2026-06-18T22:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T22:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/506871\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T22:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T22:32:12","slug":"world-cup-puts-ebola-outbreak-and-pandemic-lessons-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/506871\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup puts Ebola outbreak and pandemic lessons to the test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Alex Doran, a 28-year-old corporate strategist, is cheering for the US national team and was pleasantly surprised by the size of its initial win against Paraguay last week, while acknowledging that his team is unlikely to go all the way.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While he does not expect to attend a match in person involving tickets costing thousands of US dollars, he has been watching avidly online and hopes to see some matches at fan zones set up around Washington.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI\u2019m a little uncomfortable with large crowds because you can never predict what they\u2019ll do,\u201d said Doran, noting the potential presence of pickpockets. \u201cBut that\u2019s also what makes it exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Any concerns about being around so many people, however, did not extend to the recent Ebola outbreak.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cNo, that hasn\u2019t really been on my mind. I hope the epidemiologists will let me know when I have to worry about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alex Doran, a Washington-based corporate strategist, said he was not worried about the Ebola outbreak as he followed the World Cup and planned visits to fan zones. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/3d2ed8d6-e3dc-4628-a219-21a463b4a312_5c60d7de.jpg\" title=\"Alex Doran, a Washington-based corporate strategist, said he was not worried about the Ebola outbreak as he followed the World Cup and planned visits to fan zones. Photo: Handout\"\/>Alex Doran, a Washington-based corporate strategist, said he was not worried about the Ebola outbreak as he followed the World Cup and planned visits to fan zones. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As the World Cup overlaps with the spread of the deadly Bundibugyo Ebola strain, the outbreak has highlighted fundamental vulnerabilities in global disease defences, including China\u2019s and the world\u2019s slow response and the corrosive effect of denialism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Doran, a 28-year-old corporate strategist, is cheering for the US national team and was pleasantly surprised by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[216595,216594,114,160,8046,21059,38542,103,61,60,216596,2628,15504,24112,90,1519,31614],"class_list":["post-506871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-alex-doran","tag-bundibugyo-ebola-strain","tag-china","tag-covid-19","tag-democratic-republic-of-the-congo","tag-ebola","tag-harvard-university","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-margaret-chan","tag-mexico","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-uganda","tag-us","tag-washington","tag-world-health-organisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}