In the Democratic Republic of Congo, an Ebola outbreak is unfolding at a pace that has overwhelmed the institutions designed to stop it — reaching in 74 days what a previous epidemic required nearly two years to achieve. The collapse of contact tracing, the unpaid labor of frontline health workers, and the proximity of the Congo River to a city of 17 million people together reveal not a failure of medicine, but a failure of the political and economic order that governs whose lives are protected. What is happening in Ituri and North Kivu is not merely a public health emergency — it is a reckoni
Ebola outbreak in DRC outpaces containment efforts as deaths approach 2,000
Nearly 2,000 deaths recorded; 151 health workers infected with 44 deaths (29% fatality rate); 55,000 jobs eliminated; health workers unpaid since May and facing lethal conditions.