Ebola Shows World Unprepared for Pandemic, Former CDC Head Says

The world is not “well prepared” for the next pandemic, Tom Frieden, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionsaid, citing the current response to the Ebola outbreak and cuts to US public health efforts.

“This Ebola outbreak is not going to cause a pandemic, it’s not going to cause a significant risk to large numbers of Americans,” Frieden, the CEO of Resolve to Save Lives Inc., said on Bloomberg This Weekend. “It’s a stress test, and it’s a stress test the world is not doing well at. I would say so far we’re ...