If this spreads to the west, spreads to Thailand making Covid look like a garden party, hopefully not, well you'll know it didn't have to happen.

www.politico.com/news/2026/05/19/relief-group-says-trump-cuts-forced-it-to-scale-back-surveillance-in-ebola-affected-region-00928578

Relief group says Trump cuts ‘led to delayed detection of deadly Ebola outbreak’

An American humanitarian group operating in the part of Africa affected by an Ebola outbreak said Tuesday that Trump administration cuts were “contributing to the rapid escalation” of the epidemic.

The International Rescue Committee said that after the funding cuts in March 2025, it was forced to reduce its health and preparedness work from five to just two sections in Ituri Province in the northeastern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the epicenter of the outbreak.

AI summary

Summary of Culpability

The combination of funding cuts and the dismantling of health programs under the Trump administration is believed to have created conditions that allowed the Ebola outbreak to escalate. This suggests a level of culpability in the administration's handling of public health preparedness in the region.

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That’s quite a leap of correlation.

Just now, novacova said:

That’s quite a leap of correlation.

Do your own research.

A level of blame is definite though I don't think it will be possible to quantify how much.

In any case, Trump never faces any consequences for his mistakes anyway.

Edited May 23May 23 by Jingthing

Just now, novacova said:

That’s quite a leap of correlation.

The underlying issue is that the African continent struggles to take care of itself.

Just now, Effective altruism said:

The underlying issue is that the African continent struggles to take care of itself.

This concerns every person on the planet, yet you choose to throw some coded racist shade.

3 minutes ago, Effective altruism said:

The underlying issue is that the African continent struggles to take care of itself.

Because of European colonialsim

3 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

This concerns every person on the planet, yet you choose to throw some coded racist shade.

Can you explain how this is considered racist? I would appreciate a detailed and reasoned response.

1 minute ago, Yagoda said:

Because of European colonialsim

Europe needs to take responsibility and pay reparations.

If you're religious, it's time to pray this doesn't spread globally.

3 minutes ago, Effective altruism said:

Europe needs to take responsibility and pay reparations.

Agreed. Europe is built on the blood and treasure of others

4 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

If you're religious, it's time to pray this doesn't spread globally.

It wont

I just checked it and WHO rates the risk of global spread as low IF it doesn't mutate. But it could mutate.

43 minutes ago, Effective altruism said:

Can you explain how this is considered racist? I would appreciate a detailed and reasoned response.

There is nothing racist about what you said. The poster is just trying to label the reply so no address to your statement is needed. Why bother actually addressing the issue when you stand on the moral high ground....or so you think.

Those labels hold little to no value now.

Edited May 23May 23 by blaze master

What was the logic of the Trump regime taking this kind of risk?

Trump supporters -- do tell.

You know the old cliche -- if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

But the reckless feckless Trump regime not only did nothing, they broke it.

I'm outraged.

How the Ebola outbreak is testing U.S. pandemic preparedness

The crisis in Africa is unfolding at a moment when many of the people, systems and agencies that once drove the U.S. outbreak response are gone or diminished.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/05/23/how-ebola-outbreak-is-testing-us-pandemic-preparedness/

In 2014, when Ebola tore through West Africa and threatened to become a global catastrophe, the White House installed an “Ebola czar” to coordinate a massive U.S. response across agencies and governments. The effort, encompassing the Pentagon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USAID, the Department of Homeland Security, state officials, hospitals, foreign governments and aid groups overseas, prompted the United States to deploy military assets, build treatment centers and organize airport screening.

Afterward, federal officials developed a detailed playbook for responding to future disease outbreaks. But as the U.S. confronts another Ebola outbreak that may prove even more difficult to contain, it is relying largely on fragmented agency conference calls rather than government-wide coordination, according to six people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share internal deliberations.

Former officials and outbreak experts said the Ebola crisis is becoming a test. Can the United States — which has withdrawn from the World Health Organization and is also grappling with a hantavirus outbreak — still pull together a fast, coordinated response before the next more contagious virus emerges, or others now circulating, like bird flu, become more virulent?

Edited May 23May 23 by Jingthing

1 hour ago, Effective altruism said:

Europe needs to take responsibility and pay reparations.

The Roman Empire needs to take responsibility and pay reparations.

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Do your own research.

A level of blame is definite though I don't think it will be possible to quantify how much.

In any case, Trump never faces any consequences for his mistakes anyway.

Well, there’s really nothing to get excited about here. It’s just more hot wind coming out of the media as usual.

Bunk. The United States is not the world savior. Other nations can step up.

1 hour ago, connda said:

Bunk. The United States is not the world savior. Other nations can step up.

That is so STUPID.

In the case of global health, it is in the NATIONAL INTEREST of the U.S. to do what it was doing before Trump threw it all the trash. Of course in the aspect of spreading diseases but also SOFT POWER. If you throw out your soft power, only war powers remaiin.

1 hour ago, novacova said:

Well, there’s really nothing to get excited about here. It’s just more hot wind coming out of the media as usual.

No it's real.

You sound like a damnable nihilist.

Nothing matters. Nothing is knowable. Nothing is real outside your bubble.

As mentioned before tragic as this is for the Congo, it has already spread more and faster than it would have because of the Trump regime's irresponsibility, short sightedness, and overall idiocy. So the biggest global risk is if it mutates. But because it's bigger than it had to be already in the Congo, obviously the risk of mutation is higher then it would have been because of more cases there. Of course great hope the world gets lucky, but this is a case where helping the locals there would have reduced the global risk as well. It was idiotic to NOT do already known and established mitigation measures which again Trump threw in the toilet.

Edited May 23May 23 by Jingthing

23 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

As mentioned before tragic as this is for the Congo, it has already spread more and faster than it would have because of the Trump regime's irresponsibility, short sightedness, and overall idiocy. So the biggest global risk is if it mutates. But because it's bigger than it had to be already in the Congo, obviously the risk of mutation is higher then it would have been because of more cases there. Of course great hope the world gets lucky, but this is a case where helping the locals there would have reduced the global risk as well. It was idiotic to NOT do already known and established mitigation measures which again Trump threw in the toilet.

This deadly virus may be difficult to detect since Ebola symptoms can be similar to those caused by malaria.

Trump has absolutely decimated the health services in the US and the emergency response disease teams with his consistent budget cuts. He's okay increasing the defense budget to one and a half trillion, but when it comes to looking after people's health and looking after the poor and starving overseas he's completely out to lunch, and he doesn't care one iota.

The man is just an absolutely classic example of a gutter trash human. Don the Destroyer at work.

41 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Trump has absolutely decimated the health services in the US and the emergency response disease teams with his consistent budget cuts. He's okay increasing the defense budget to one and a half trillion, but when it comes to looking after people's health and looking after the poor and starving overseas he's completely out to lunch, and he doesn't care one iota.

The man is just an absolutely classic example of a gutter trash human. Don the Destroyer at work.

That budget will have to be passed by congress though right ?

41 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Trump has absolutely decimated the health services in the US and the emergency response disease teams with his consistent budget cuts. He's okay increasing the defense budget to one and a half trillion, but when it comes to looking after people's health and looking after the poor and starving overseas he's completely out to lunch, and he doesn't care one iota.

The man is just an absolutely classic example of a gutter trash human. Don the Destroyer at work.

I think he's the worst human in history to emerge from the American culture.

2 hours ago, blaze master said:

That budget will have to be passed by congress though right ?

No. Barely anything that Trump does is approved by Congress, and the majority of his policy is done without congressional nor senatorial disapproval.

8 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

No. Barely anything that Trump does is approved by Congress, and the majority of his policy is done without congressional nor senatorial disapproval.

Not guaranteed anymore. More and more of the GOP are defecting. They are sick and tired of Trump's antics. Plus they are being cautious with the coming elections just around the corner.

14 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

No. Barely anything that Trump does is approved by Congress, and the majority of his policy is done without congressional nor senatorial disapproval.

I thought congress had to pass budgets. Is there examples of him doing budgets by himself.

7 hours ago, Jingthing said:

No it's real.

You sound like a damnable nihilist.

Nothing matters. Nothing is knowable. Nothing is real outside your bubble.

Yes, the outbreak is real with ~750 suspected cases and 82 confirmed cases in central Africa which has been classified at an epidemic in the drc. Not an epidemic outside of the drc and not a pandemic. But the media bubble has gotten you frightened into another scaredemic as usual.

Edited May 24May 24 by novacova

11 hours ago, Jingthing said:

This concerns every person on the planet, yet you choose to throw some coded racist shade.

If it concerns everyone on the planet, Perhaps every government on the planet can chip in and not just blame the US all the time.

8 minutes ago, sungod said:

If it concerns everyone on the planet, Perhaps every government on the planet can chip in and not just blame the US all the time.

If only we stopped spending so much money killing each other over petty squabbles and ideals.