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WHO chief lands in Congo as officials battle Ebola outbreak and misinformation 91%
5/30/2026, 10:55:37 AM
BS Summary: This video contains 31 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Framing Effect, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 36.6% saturation with 197 hits. Analysis detected 1,301 faulty-reasoning hits from 538 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 80.7% and a BS Rank of 91% (2,449 of 26,505 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 90.80% of the video peer group.
We're back with the battle against Ebola.
It's been 15 days since health officials in the Congo officially declared an outbreak and the fight to control the virus gets harder every day.
Now, according to the CDC, the total number of confirmed cases in the Congo and Uganda is up to 134 with 18 confirmed deaths.
But, the World Health Organization says those numbers may be even higher.
CBS's Remy Inacencio joins us now with more.
>> Kelly, yeah, that's right.
And the number of suspected cases keeps rising, too.
In the DRC, it surged overnight above the 1,000 mark and then in Uganda, just to the east, an aid group operating there told me that the number could be three or four more times higher than what is being reported because he said everyone in Uganda, as well as the DRC, are just behind the curve both in diagnosing and reporting.
>> Grief echoes at ground zero in this surging Ebola crisis as weary Red Cross volunteers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo suit up not to treat the living but to bury the dead. >> [screaming] >> With disinfectant, these mounds of earth just the tip of the iceberg, says Dr.
Mesfin Zehima of the New York-based International Rescue Committee.
>> This could likely even actually closer even more than, you know, what was the West Africa outbreak in 2014-16.
>> More than 11,000 people died and more than twice that many were infected over 2 years across 10 countries.
>> I just want to be clear.
You said that this could be worse.
>> Yes, that is what, you know, we are preparing for.
>> Aid workers are sounding the alarm and say many people don't believe Ebola exists.
Their work hampered by slow early detection, possibly since January, and the Trump administration's pullback of aid that's meant fewer eyes on the ground. on it.
>> An unfortunate perfect storm for this.
>> That's what's is what we have observed today.
Yeah.
>> And while Washington cut foreign aid, it asked nearby Kenya to set up a 50-bed quarantine facility at this airbase for potential American Ebola patients.
But a Kenyan high court judge blocked the plan hours before it was due to open.
Kenyans are critical.
>> Why do Americans think think that their lives are so much important than the lives of Kenyans?
>> Why would you create a facility in my country and it doesn't serve me?
Yet, the same same facility is going to host people who are endangering my own life.
>> A lot of anger there as you can hear.
Kenya's judicial block on that American quarantine facility lasts until June 2nd.
That's this coming Tuesday.
And the court is set to pick up on that petition.
I do want to point out that Kenya's government already approved the facility on Thursday.
As it turns out though, Adriana, that was the same day Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered Kenya more than $13 million for Ebola preparedness when they both spoke on that day.
>> All right, Remy.
Thank you so much for all those details.
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