Ebola outbreak spreads in eastern DRC as Red Cross workers face violence

Red Cross volunteers and community members face violence; Ebola victims and their families affected by outbreak and burial complications.

In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, an Ebola outbreak continues to spread through the intimate channels of human care and mourning, while the volunteers tasked with interrupting that transmission face violence from the very communities they are trying to protect. The fracture between grieving families and public health institutions is not merely a logistical complication — it is a second crisis running alongside the epidemiological one, each feeding the other. What unfolds here is an ancient tension: the collision between the measures science demands and the bonds that culture and grief r

Ebola outbreak spreads in eastern DRC as Red Cross workers face violence

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