# Panel: What does it take to contain Ebola outbreak in Central Africa? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/world-today-319503/panel-what-does-it-take-to-contain-ebola-outbreak-in-central-africa Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/world-today-319503/panel-what-does-it-take-to-contain-ebola-outbreak-in-central-africa.md Podcast: [World Today](https://stenobird.com/podcast/world-today-319503) Published: 2026-06-12T12:20:00+00:00 Episode link: 1_2765020 Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/radio-res.cgtn.com/ueditor/audio/2606/1081266845053.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/world-today-319503/episodes/panel-what-does-it-take-to-contain-ebola-outbreak-in-central-africa Duration seconds: 3221 ## Resource It’s been nearly a month since the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The numbers of confirmed cases and deaths are continuing to rise. In a situation facing a lethal pathogen and zero approved vaccines, what does it take to stop the spread of the virus? Host Ding Heng is joined by Susannah Mayhew, Professor of Health Policy, Systems and Reproductive Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Shane Thomas, Professor of Health Promotion at Federation University Australia; Professor Wu Zhiwei from School of Pharmacy, Dali University in Yunnan, China. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/world-today-319503/episodes/panel-what-does-it-take-to-contain-ebola-outbreak-in-central-africa/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/world-today-319503/panel-what-does-it-take-to-contain-ebola-outbreak-in-central-africa.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.