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FightFight

(246 posts)
Thu Feb 6, 2025, 02:53 PM Feb 2025

As Trump shuts down USAID missions, officials warn Ebola outbreak in Uganda will spread

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/some-u-s-officials-fear-disaster-as-trump-upends-ebola-response-in-uganda/

Some health officials in the U.S. fear the shutdown of U.S. Agency for International Development missions may have disastrous results, as the stalling of foreign aid has forced delays in what they said was the "chaotic" early U.S. response to Uganda's swelling Ebola outbreak.

The outbreak marks Uganda's eighth from an Ebola virus. The first confirmed case in the outbreak was a nurse at a hospital in the nation's capital, Kampala, who contracted Ebola on Jan. 20 or Jan. 21 and died on Jan. 29.

There are now six confirmed and six suspect cases. In two of the suspect cases, according to an internal slide shared with CBS News, health authorities have identified no epidemiological link to the other cases.



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In October 2014, Donald Trump tweeted that U.S. President Barack Obama should resign because a doctor who had treated Ebola patients in Guinea returned to the U.S.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-obama-ebola-tweet/
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As Trump shuts down USAID missions, officials warn Ebola outbreak in Uganda will spread (Original Post) FightFight Feb 2025 OP
shithole musk republicans have been warned....................... Lovie777 Feb 2025 #1
As USAID is pushed to the side, I keep thinking of GWB louis-t Feb 2025 #2

Lovie777

(21,745 posts)
1. shithole musk republicans have been warned.......................
Thu Feb 6, 2025, 03:01 PM
Feb 2025

if ebola virus spreads around the world like COVID 19 and I hate to say this ..........................

With kennedy in as head of the health and shithole musk at the helm, we are effed.

I will surely blame the republican party and those who voted for the travesty.

louis-t

(24,575 posts)
2. As USAID is pushed to the side, I keep thinking of GWB
Thu Feb 6, 2025, 03:08 PM
Feb 2025

who made a statement like "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here." Any maga that gives you shit about USAID not being important deserves to have that phrase shoves in their fat faces.

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