dr. firoved. that been wiped out? has it been contained?re there any active cases right now in africa that we are aware of? dr. firoved: unfortunately, we have seen cases reemerging, getting -- beginning in liberia. to my colleague from cdc, but there is active tracing going on. sen. johnson: tell me what happened there. did we get to a level of zero and it's coming back? dr. redd: the widespread transmission that was seen in 2014 and 2015 has been contained . what we have seen repeatedly in liberia, sierra leone, and ginny, are small clusters identified after a few cases, rapid response, and implementing the measures that brought the disease under control when it was more widespread. notrtunately, this is unexpected. the latest case, we believe, is from sexual transmission, a person that had ebola in the past transmitted that disease through the route of sexual transmission, and a small cluster occurred. and i think that this outbreak is now being worked very hard, both in guinea and liberia. the cases and liberia are connected to the ones

dr. firoved mentioned. tracking them daily until the potential incubation period was over. >> so, from the start of that outbreak to, you know, kind of the final conclusion of it, it seems like certainly the procedure was, you know, we can handle this in hospitals to the point where, no, let's do it in very specialized hospital snaps kind of the process of procedures in place now? that we're going to have basically centers of excellence here. and maybe hostals are going to be ready because they had to respond properly. but then transport individuals that prove positive? >> so, for ebola, that's the system in place. i think a lot of the discussion is about other diseases that there might be more cases and in trying to adapt that system so we have the right care for people who have these very clear effects. and make that -- >> by the way, ebola is obviously unique disease. but procedures in place, those are procedures for a number of different situations, right? >> yes, sir. i think there are a couple charact

dr. firoved mentioned. tracking them daily until the potential incubation period was over. >> so, from the start of that outbreak to, you know, kind of the final conclusion of it, it seems like certainly the procedure was, you know, we can handle this in hospitals to the point where, no, let's do it in very specialized hospital snaps kind of the process of procedures in place now? that we're going to have basically centers of excellence here. and maybe hospitals are going to be ready because they had to respond properly. but then transport individuals that prove positive? >> so, for ebola, that's the system in place. i think a lot of the discussion is about other diseases that there might be more cases and in trying to adapt that system so we have the right care for people who have these very clear effects. and make that -- >> by the way, ebola is obviously unique disease. but procedures in place, those are procedures for a number of different situations, right? >> yes, sir. i think there are a couple chara