WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – U.S. CDC model scenarios show that without strong public health interventions, the current outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo could become as large as, or even larger than, the 2014-2016 West Africa outbreak, the agency said on Friday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published three Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report documents on the outbreak on Friday in part to marshal resources across the international community, Dr. Satish Pillai, the incident manager for CDC’s Ebola response, said in a briefing.
In modeled scenarios where a low number of patients isolate sufficiently, the outbreak could become one of the largest ever documented, said Jason Asher, Director of CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics.
(Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein in Washington, Michael Erman in New York, and Bhargav Acharya in Toronto, Editing by Franklin Paul)
