US legislator confuses Guyana with Guinea in Ebola hearing

At a hearing on the Ebola response today, House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa three times erroneously the country where the outbreak originated, Guinea, Bloomberg reported.

“The first time could have been interpreted as a flustered fluke. Issa had tripped over the word “nation” when saying that “in the West African nation of Guyana, the world first learned about yet another new outbreak of the Ebola virus” several months ago.

But then it happened again. And again”, Bloomberg said.

“The news of that medical doctor returning from Guyana,” he said, and then restarted the sentence. “The news that a medical doctor returning from Guyana has tested positive for Ebola has raised even more questions.”