Dr. Céline Goundermedical correspondent, CBS News · physician, epidemiologist, medical journalist

The US could accidentally start an Ebola outbreak — in Kenya

Name: The US could accidentally start an Ebola outbreak — in Kenya
Uploaded: 2026-06-06T19:53:02+00:00
Duration: 32 s
Channel: Dr. Céline Gounder
Description: The US Army and Public Health Service are refusing to bring Ebola patients to American facilities, forcing treatment in a substandard biocontainment lab…

6 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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The US Army and Public Health Service are refusing to bring Ebola patients to American facilities, forcing treatment in a substandard biocontainment lab instead. The speaker warns this inadequate facility could leak the virus, creating a new outbreak.

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Guess what? The US Army and the US military and the US Public Health Service has just contributed to starting a new outbreak in a new place because they basically were too afraid to bring Ebola patients back home to use the facilities that are far superior and were supported with American taxpayer dollars. In other words, we would be the lab leak. We would be the lab leak. It would be the US Army— sorry, the Department of War— that would be responsible for the lab leak that would occur from this completely inadequate biocontainment facility.