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“[Ebola] has gone on undetected throughout dozens of communities and schools and, arguably, in transport. . . . The right blood tests for the right strain, Bundibugyo strain, weren’t available in the eastern DRC. That’s why it wasn’t picked up,” says Janti Soeripto, president and CEO of Save the Children USA. “Then they figured out, oh, it is Ebola, and now there is no treatment and there wasn’t a vaccine for this particular strain, right? It’s a less common one. So all these things—it’s a perfect storm, right? Much less local capacity, a CDC, and a USAID or where there used to be a response mechanism. . . . All of these mechanisms, either in terms of detection or in early response, have been weakened.” Subscribe to our channel: https://goo.gl/WCYsH7 This work represents the views and opinions solely of the author. The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher, and takes no institutional positions on matters of policy. Visit the CFR website: http://www.cfr.org Follow CFR on X: http://www.twitter.com/cfr_org Follow CFR on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/councilonforeignrelations/