Jeff Flake said about 20 minutes ago (during Kavanaugh's hearing) he and Coons were in Africa earlier this year. They were there about a month before the Ebola outbreak started in the Congo, another coincidence?
https:// www.coons.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-coons-leads-bipartisan-senate-delegation-to-niger-south-africa-zimbabwe-burkina-faso
https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/drc/2018-may.html