Ebola

Tuesday

Cockburn

RFK is America’s top witch doctor

From our US edition

Fears are mounting about the possibility of a global Ebola outbreak. The CDC has already initiated various containment measures, including redirecting flights from the Democratic Republic of Congo and surrounding countries to Washington Dulles and Atlanta airports. But fear not – the US has its best man on the job. “We’re working on it,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. yesterday told ABC News, when asked about Ebola. This morning, he posted a 21-second clip on X in which he corners and catches two black racers with his hands during a visit to Dr. Oz’s home. https://twitter.com/robertkennedyjr/status/2059273262220115998?s=46 The clip is captioned, “Cheryl cheerleads the removal of a pair of Black Racers from Dr. Oz’s patio.

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Saturday

Aidan Hartley

Africa’s invisible epidemics

Africa   ‘Ah, Africa,’ the French scientist sighed contentedly. This was 1995 and all around us was an Ebola epidemic ravaging Kikwit, a village in what they now call the Democratic Republic of Congo. ‘No lawyers to sue us!’ I had just asked him why doctors in the local hospital ward had shown me Ebola victims, lying in beds next to patients suffering milder diseases. In the Kikwit outbreak, the hemorrhagic fever killed eight out of ten people infected — 245 in all. People became sick after kissing and hugging the bodies of their loved ones at their funerals.