In the eastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a strain of Ebola with no approved vaccine is spreading faster than any outbreak before it, claiming 1,800 lives in three months and forcing a reckoning with how prepared humanity truly is to meet a pathogen it has never fully faced. Four vaccine candidates are now in clinical trials, backed by an international coalition racing to prove that science can outpace catastrophe. The effort is as much a test of global solidarity as it is of immunology — unfolding against a backdrop of civil war, broken trust, and diplomatic negotiations
Race intensifies for Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine as DRC outbreak becomes fastest-spreading on record
Over 4,000 people infected and 1,800 deaths in the DRC Ebola outbreak within three months, with ongoing transmission complicated by civil war and community mistrust.