{"id":31350,"date":"2026-05-20T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/cider\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31350"},"modified":"2026-05-25T08:57:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:57:40","slug":"ebola-outbreak-how-prepared-is-singapore","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/cider\/news\/ebola-outbreak-how-prepared-is-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Story: Ebola Outbreak &#8211; How prepared is Singapore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Singapore is stepping up health measures after the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a global public health emergency.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">What is making experts especially concerned? This outbreak involves the rare Bundibugyo strain, a strain with no approved vaccine and no targeted treatment currently available.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">So what exactly makes this strain different from previous Ebola outbreaks, and how prepared are we if the virus reaches our shores?<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">On MONEY FM 89.3\u2019s <i data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"19\">The Big Story: Ebola Outbreak &#8211; How prepared is Singapore?<\/i> (featured on the <i data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"95\">Your Way Home with Hongbin Jeong<\/i> evening show), Hongbin Jeong speaks to Professor Dale Fisher, Director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Emergency Response at NUS, to find out more.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\"><i data-path-to-node=\"6\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">(Access the full podcast on <a class=\"ng-star-inserted\" href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/moneyfm-evening-show\/the-big-story-ebola-outbreak-how-prepared-is-singapore?in_playlist=moneyfm-893!podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-hveid=\"0\" data-ved=\"0CAAQ_4QMahcKEwie9MaIgtSUAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQWw\">Omny.fm<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Big Story: Ebola Outbreak - How prepared is Singapore? \" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/moneyfm-evening-show\/the-big-story-ebola-outbreak-how-prepared-is-singapore\/embed?in_playlist=moneyfm-893%21podcast&amp;style=Cover&amp;media=Audio&amp;size=Wide\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore is stepping up health measures after the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a global public health emergency. What is making experts especially concerned? This outbreak involves the rare Bundibugyo strain, a strain with no approved vaccine and no targeted treatment currently available. So what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31354,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[],"class_list":["post-31350","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Big Story: Ebola Outbreak - How prepared is Singapore? - Centre for Infectious Disease Emergency Response<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On MONEY FM 89.3\u2019s The Big Story: Ebola Outbreak - How prepared is Singapore? 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