NEW: Ebola Outbreak Kills 80, Concern Growing About Containment
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3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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A new, large ebola outbreak is alarming global health experts, concerned that the first reports of the outbreak have come at such a late stage, with hundreds of cases already suspected. Adding to that, the area of the Congo where this outbreak has been identified is mired in an ongoing conflict and right along the borders of Uganda and South Sudan where containment is extremely difficult. The World Health Organization and other health officials have reached the region trying to slow the spread, but weeks have already gone by, with little to no contact tracing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.0 | It is Saturday, May 16th. |
| 0:09.7 | I thought we were talking about hantavirus. |
| 0:12.4 | We wake up this morning to news. |
| 0:15.2 | There is an Ebola outbreak, and it's already one of the worst outbreaks in history. And with that, welcome to |
| 0:24.3 | this episode of Amy and T.J. Okay, Robes. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. It's a little alarming. We should |
| 0:32.3 | put it all in context. But this is real. This is legit. This is concerning. And people are being |
| 0:37.2 | mobilized for an emergency |
| 0:39.8 | alert situation going on in Congo right now. Robs? Yes, because this is already a significant |
| 0:47.7 | outbreak. As you pointed out, 80 people have already died. There are 246 suspected cases, and the concern is that this has just |
| 0:57.2 | begun, that there are certainly going to be much higher numbers coming soon. And Robes, |
| 1:03.4 | there's concern among the community, the medical community, I should say, the world health |
| 1:08.4 | community, that some of them seem to be thrown off |
| 1:11.9 | guard by this, that, wait, we're finding out about it and the numbers already at 80 or 246 total cases, |
| 1:20.3 | they think something has gone wrong in our health policy. We shouldn't be finding out about it |
| 1:26.8 | when the numbers are this high. |
| 1:28.3 | That is incredibly disturbing. And it's happening in a part of the world where there is |
| 1:33.7 | a humanitarian crisis already going on because there is civil unrest. There are military, |
| 1:40.5 | while there are competing militias going on back and forth. So this is an environment where people |
| 1:45.1 | already don't necessarily have a safe facility to go to or to get to or a place to go to get help. |
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