Urgent: Surge Global Response to Stop Ebola at Its Source

Frieden argues the DRC Ebola outbreak requires an immediate, massive surge of global and local action—clinicians, labs, PPE, burial teams, and trusted community outreach—built on rapid case confirmation, contact tracing, and isolation, since containment is possible even without vaccines or proven treatments if surged now. He urges stronger WHO, a rebuilt CDC, and sustained US leadership in diagnostics, sequencing, and logistics (with USAID and DoD support), while frontline deployment may be limited by security. The Lagos example shows disciplined incident management can rapidly contain thousands of cases; without such scale and speed, this outbreak could last months or years.