1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated July 25, 2019Ebola Outbreak: Democratic Republic of CongoThrough annual appropriations, Congress provides funds to control infectious disease threats like Ebola. In FY2019, Congress provided $100 million to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
2、 and $108.2 million to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to global health security and pandemic preparedness. The Trump Administrations FY2020 budget request included $90 million and $100 million for USAID and CDC global health security programs, respectively. Congress also p
3、rovided over $5 billion in emergency funds in FY2015 for domestic and global efforts to contain the West Africa Ebola outbreak (P.L. 113-235). Some unspent funds are being used to fight the Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). On August 1, 2018, the World Health Organization (W
4、HO) reported a new Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC, about a week after declaring that a separate outbreak had ended in western DRC. The ongoing Ebola outbreakthe 10th to be documented in DRCis the largest in the countrys history (Figure 1). It is occurring in North Kivu and Ituri provinces where a pro