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A leader of the 2014 U.S. Ebola response compares then to now
Susan Reichle, a 2014 U.S. Ebola response leader, compared the 2014 West African outbreak to the current Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda situation. In 2014, cases grew from 49 to 300 in 2.5 months; the current outbreak reached 300 confirmed cases in two weeks after hundreds of suspected cases emerged.
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