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The Ebola virus is not simply a health issue but a cultural and eudcational "problem" too. There is a reason people eat bushmeat because 1, it's their culture 2, they would otherwise have nothing to eat especially not meat protein.

NSFL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XasTcDsDfMg

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USAID was, among many other things, working on educating folks about this.

Education, cultural sensitivity, etc. are health issues.

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You mean the 17th ebola outbreak in the DRC?
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Yes, the one authorities are struggling to contain because of recent withdrawal of resources, and consequently predicted to be more prolonged and at greater risk of wider spread.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/29/friday-briefin...

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The world should be more independent and self sufficient. It will be better in the long run.
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To what goal? USAID and similar programs always had the indirect benefit of opening up foreign markets to the USA. It's just short-sighted out of sheer economic considerations - and that's ignoring the ridiculous recklessness of pulling the rug under millions of people. Hundreds of thousands have died due to the USAID cuts; those deaths could have been prevented by approaching this in a more professional manner.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/02/27/g-s1-...

Musk: “So, for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was Ebola prevention.”

“As of early February, the U.S. was not providing funding to support testing and port screenings in Uganda because of Trump's freeze on almost all U.S. foreign assistance.”

“Within USAID's Global Health Bureau there was a team of people that specialized in high risk outbreaks, like Ebola. "Virtually all of those people have been pushed out of the agency, and they have not been brought back. Only a very small handful — like low single digits — remain from what had been something like a 30 person team," says Jeremy Konyndyk, who oversaw USAID's response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak.”

“As for the role of the CDC, Spencer says what its officials can do is limited by Trump's order that the CDC not communicate with WHO.”

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