Along the Congo River, a fragile line of health workers and loudspeakers stands between a rapidly accelerating Ebola outbreak and one of Africa's largest cities. In one hundred days since May, the Bundibugyo strain — for which no vaccine exists — has claimed more than 2,500 lives across six provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with half those deaths occurring in just the last three weeks. Kinshasa, home to nearly seventeen million people, remains uninfected, but the river that connects the country's vast interior to its capital is also the path the virus could travel. What unfolds at
DR Congo races to prevent Ebola reaching Kinshasa as cases surge past 2,500
Over 2,500 people have died from Ebola across DR Congo, with the outbreak spreading rapidly and threatening millions in the capital city of Kinshasa.
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