{"id":24113,"date":"2026-05-17T10:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=24113"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:58:16","slug":"as-who-declares-ebola-outbreak-in-dr-congo-a-global-health-emergency-america-is-not-ready-for-another-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/17\/as-who-declares-ebola-outbreak-in-dr-congo-a-global-health-emergency-america-is-not-ready-for-another-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"As WHO declares Ebola outbreak in DR Congo a global health emergency, America is not ready for another pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t reassuring\u2026<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/TBXr3#selection-569.0-569.65\">BBC<\/a>: &#8220;The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s eastern Ituri province a public health emergency of international concern. The agency added that the outbreak, with around 246 suspected cases and 80 deaths reported, does not meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency. WHO director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned there are currently &#8216;significant uncertainties to the true number of infected persons and geographic spread&#8217; of the outbreak.&#8221;<br \/>\nGuardian: &#8220;The hantavirus outbreak, while unlikely to spark the next big pandemic, is shining a spotlight on the ways public health has deteriorated in the US: its ability to test for rare diseases, its expertise on outbreak prevention and response, its ability to battle misinformation and restore trust. &#8216;Assuming everything goes well in containing this outbreak, which I hope it does, the takeaway from that should not be &#8220;we\u2019re fine,&#8221;&#8216; said Stephanie Psaki, former White House global health security coordinator. &#8216;We\u2019re not ready for this type of threat.&#8217; Many of the people at health agencies who plan for a quick response to outbreaks, and the systems supporting them, are gone now, Psaki noted. Yet &#8216;this is just one of many, many pathogens. These types of things will continue happening.&#8217; And, she pointed out, there\u2019s a 50\/50 chance of another pandemic at least as bad as Covid in the next 25 years, according to scientific models.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t reassuring\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24124,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24113\/revisions\/24124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}