CDC's Bundibugyo file now reads less like a scoreboard than an instruction sheet. The paper's earlier account of four U.S. arrival airports as the operating rule and its count-discipline brief on CDC moving ahead of WHO's older table both pointed to the same conclusion: readers need tasks.

The first task is exposure discipline. CDC's HAN says the outbreak involves Bundibugyo virus in DRC and Uganda and puts U.S. spread risk low, but still tells clinicians, public-health staff, laboratories, and travelers how to identify and handle possible cases [1].

The second task is travel specificity. CDC's DRC notice tells travelers to avoid nonessential travel to Ituri, Nord-Kivu, and Sud-Kivu provinces, avoid contact with blood or body fluids, avoid health facilities for nonurgent reasons, and monitor for symptoms during travel and for 21 days afterward [2]. Uganda carries enhanced precautions, not the same notice level, but repeats the 21-day monitoring and isolation instruction [3].

The third task is medical honesty. Both CDC travel notices say no vaccines or specific treatments are approved for Bundibugyo virus disease, and early supportive care improves survival [2][3]. That sentence matters more than a viral count.

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago