Most of the 13 U. treatment centers in a government-funded hospital network for severe infectious diseases are ready to handle patients, including those with Ebola if needed,

Still, the risk to people in the United States remains low, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report Friday.

Prime Minister Justin Nsengiyumva has said the Ebola situation in the region is being closely monitored, noting that Rwanda has strengthened its prevention and response measures to protect citizens. He said this during a press briefing on June 6 on Rwanda’s current economic situation and issues affecting the daily lives of citizens.

Dozens of people have died and hundreds have been sickened in an Ebola outbreak centered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Americans who have high-risk exposures to Ebola in the current outbreak in Central Africa will have access to an experimental antibody treatment.

It's a virus that can strike with unrelenting force. The kind of care need to knock it out is often not fully available in a lower resource country like the Democratic Republic of Congo.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that Americans who test positive for Ebola while under observation at a facility in Kenya could be sent for treatment in the United States — an apparent shift from the Trump administration’s position that no Ebola cases would be allowed into the country.

Lessons from Covid pandemic are boosting prevention and treatment efforts locally and abroad