Fast-growing Ebola outbreak in DRC surges to second-largest on record

The current Ebola outbreak is the “most significant international infectious disease outbreak the Trump administration has had to face in its second term,” according to a KFF analysis — and there are significant differences in how the US government is responding, compared with earlier outbreaks.

The first 1,000 cases in this outbreak were reported within the first 40 days of response activation, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but it took nearly six times as long — about 235 days — to reach more than 1,000 cases during the 2018 outbreak.” “The declaration follows the successful completion of all outbreak response measures and confirms that there has been no further transmission of the virus,” according to a release from Uganda’s Ministry of Health.