{"id":468537,"date":"2026-05-31T02:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/468537\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T02:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:07:16","slug":"ebola-shows-world-unprepared-for-next-pandemic-ex-us-cdc-head-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/468537\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola shows world unprepared for next pandemic, ex-US CDC head says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The world is not \u201cwell prepared\u201d for the next pandemic, Tom Frieden, the former head of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said, citing the current response to the Ebola outbreak and cuts to US public health efforts.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis Ebola outbreak is not going to cause a pandemic, it\u2019s not going to cause a significant risk to large numbers of Americans,\u201d Frieden, the CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt\u2019s a stress test, and it\u2019s a stress test the world is not doing well at. I would say so far we\u2019re failing, and that bodes ill for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday there are 1,077 suspected cases of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, which is spreading quickly.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Partial border closures are in place between Congo, Uganda and Rwanda, which has made coordinating relief and aid more difficult.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrives at Bunia National Airport in DR Congo on Saturday to coordinate the response to the Ebola outbreak. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7994cc97-a309-4ab8-a2e7-2215f1ac14cc_5aff93ca.jpg\" title=\"WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrives at Bunia National Airport in DR Congo on Saturday to coordinate the response to the Ebola outbreak. Photo: Reuters\"\/>WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrives at Bunia National Airport in DR Congo on Saturday to coordinate the response to the Ebola outbreak. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">African officials said earlier this week they have only received pledges meeting a little over half of the US$500 million needed to fight the outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world is not \u201cwell prepared\u201d for the next pandemic, Tom Frieden, the former head of the Centres&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[217856,1146,29592,163,85,46,217855],"class_list":["post-468537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-bundibugyo","tag-cdc","tag-ebola","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tom-frieden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}