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Susan Monarez: “There were five ongoing outbreaks. Yeah, we had Ebola and…”

Featuring: Susan Monarez, Acting Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | National

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Drs. Susan Monarez & Eric Topol: Former CDC Director, First Live Interview

Published | Video Starts at 12:35

And then you get the call to be the acting director of the CDC for two months, I guess, January to March. And that's, of course, in the middle of what, five outbreaks? Yep. There were five ongoing outbreaks. Yeah, we had Ebola and Marburg in Africa. We had TB in Kansas. We had H5N1, where we really didn't know what the arc was gonna look like. And then we had the emerging measles outbreak that was starting in Texas. And yeah, it was. I mean, it was everything that cdc, you know, is expected to be able to handle. And I was. I jumped right in and, you know, a really incredible team. (12:35–12:49)

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Asserts that there were five ongoing outbreaks: Ebola, Marburg, TB in Kansas, H5N1, and measles in Texas.

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