The Ebola outbreak taking place in Africa will soon grow into a crisis the world cannot ignore, a former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed.
Robert Redfield offered his opinions onNewsNation.
“I suspect this is going to become a very significant pandemic, probably going to leak into Tanzania, leak into southern Sudan, maybe leak into Rwanda,” he said.
“So, it’s going to be very disruptive,” he added.
Redfield said the outbreak accelerated quicker than most.
“This is an outbreak right now that is really a significant outbreak that’s of significant public health international concern, partially because what you said, it wasn’t recognized very quickly,” he said.
“I’m not sure why. Normally when we have these Ebola outbreaks, and I had three of them when I was CDC director, all of which were in the DRC, normally we recognize them when we have five, 10 cases, you know, at most,” he said, referring to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
“This one really wasn’t picked up until there was over 100 cases. As you said, now there’s over 500 cases. There’s close to 150 deaths already, and it’s moving very rapidly,” he said.
He said the outbreak has already spread into Uganda and would likely spread to South Sudan.
“This is going to be a significant, significant, Ebola outbreak,” he added.
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