In the Democratic Republic of Congo's Bunia region, the ancient struggle between a deadly pathogen and human readiness is playing out once more — this time against a backdrop of empty parking lots and silent clinic records. Surveillance teams tasked with containing an Ebola outbreak across 23 health districts and one million people have only four vehicles between them, while inspections reveal that suspected cases are going unreported at the frontline clinics meant to be the outbreak's first alarm. What emerges is not merely a story of insufficient resources, but of a detection system whose fo
Congo's Ebola surveillance teams struggle with resources as cases go unreported
Ebola outbreak spreading through Democratic Republic of Congo with potential for widespread infection and mortality across 1 million people in affected region.