DRC Ebola outbreak surpasses 4,000 cases as spread accelerates

In the eastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a land long shaped by conflict and fragility, the Ebola virus has now claimed 1,850 lives among more than 4,000 confirmed cases — a toll that speaks not only to the lethality of the pathogen but to the accumulated weight of decades of broken infrastructure and displacement. Médecins Sans Frontières, whose workers stand closest to the suffering, has declared the epidemic more critical than ever, moving at a speed without precedent in their experience. What unfolds next is less a question of medicine than of collective will: whether