Opinion: I led the U.S. CDC response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic. The new outbreak needs massive, immediate, meticulous action

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Tom Frieden, who directed the CDC's response to West Africa's 2014 Ebola epidemic, warns that the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo demands urgent action. The DRC outbreak started with 400, 500 suspected cases, ten times the number present when the 2014 response began, and has already spread from three health zones to 25 in just three weeks. While local health staff are responding intensively, Frieden argues the scale and speed of transmission require massive, immediate intervention to prevent a catastrophe worse than the 2014 epidemic that killed over 11,000 people.