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We're on the line right now with our good friend, my good friend, Dr. Mark Siegel, and Dr. Siegel.

We've got a lot of health stories in the news right now, but obviously the big one is this Ebola outbreak in the Congo.

And I guess the scariest thing that I heard in the last 24 hours was that some of the people in

the Congo angry that the bodies of their loved ones weren't turned back over to them.

So they set fire to these 10 hospitals.

And in so doing at least 18 patients left and we don't know where they are.

I mean, this is pretty scary, doctor.

Well, these Ebola outbreaks have been occurring for a decade now and over a decade, two decades.

And actually, the whole idea about lack of a healthcare infrastructure, Jake,

and the idea of, you know, warring regions.

And that's what we're worried about, right? Because it's getting into Sudan now. And Congo,

the Democratic Republican Congo and Uganda, not only do they have CDC boots on the ground

and they have their own methods of taking care of Ebola.

But when we get into the more war-torn regions that you're talking about, we're going to see

more spread.

Now, in 2014 to 16, we saw 28,000 cases.

We're about it 1,000 cases now.

So that dwarfs this, but there's a couple of

caveats. One is that the Zaire strain, which is the one that caused the prior outbreak, we have a

vaccine for that now, which is 80 to 90 percent effective. We can tweak that vaccine and get a

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