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Former CDC director warns Ebola could be ‘very significant pandemic’
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- Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the first Trump administration, warned that the Ebola outbreak in Africa could become a significant pandemic.
- This is an outbreak right now that is really a significant outbreak that s of significant public health international concern, partially because what you said, it wasn t recognized very quickly.
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Link copied by Joseph Choi and Nathaniel Weixel - 05/21/26 6:23 PM ET Link copied Presented by Coalition to Strengthen America s Healthcare{beacon}
Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the first Trump administration, warned that the Ebola outbreak in Africa could become a significant pandemic.
Last week, the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak occurring primarily in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda to be a public health emergency of international concern, with more than 500 suspected cases reported from the two countries.
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