The Trump administration has officially ended at least four of five United States-funded Ebola contracts in Uganda.

Dr. Herbert Luswata, president of the Uganda Medical Association, said that the Ebola response had been badly hampered by the absence of U.S. support and that Uganda’s health system was notably less prepared and responsive than it had been during the last Ebola outbreak, in 2022.

In a Cabinet meeting, Elon Musk defended the actions his team has made to cut government jobs, but public health experts say Musk is wrong. USAID's Ebola prevention efforts have been largely frozen since the agency was mostly shuttered last month.

Elon Musk said DOGE will make mistakes. He said an example is how the team briefly cut USAID funding for Ebola prevention.

Elon Musk admitted that DOGE “accidentally” canceled Ebola prevention funding during an outbreak in Uganda. The video of his admission quickly went viral.

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USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.

Elon Musk appeared at President Donald Trump’s first cabinet meeting of his second term Wednesday to talk about what the billionaire was doing with DOGE, the group that’s currently dismantling the federal government in an illegal powerplay that circumvents Congress.

U.S. Cancels Ebola Aid in Uganda Despite Elon Musk’s Claims FRIDAY, Feb. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Hours after billionaire Elon Musk told the president's Cabinet that the U.S. had quickly ...

Don Beyer of Virginia wasted no time taking aim at Musk for his chuckling comment about an often fatal virus that has devastating effects on the communities that experience an outbreak. “An average person who did something as incompetent as ‘accidentally cancelling Ebola prevention’ wouldn’t be applauded,