WHO convenes emergency meeting on experimental Ebola vaccines as Congo outbreak spreads rapidly

The 2018 Ebola outbreak in Congo killed 2,300 people; current outbreak threatens regional spread with immediate humanitarian and economic impacts on border communities.

For the seventeenth time, Congo finds itself at the center of an Ebola crisis — and the world, once again, finds itself without a perfect answer. The WHO convened an emergency session this week in Geneva, confronting a strain of the virus for which no approved vaccine exists, spreading through a region where delayed testing allowed it to move unseen for weeks. What is unfolding is a familiar human tragedy made newly urgent: the tension between the slow work of science and the fast logic of contagion, playing out across borders, bodies, and communities that cannot afford to wait.

WHO convenes emergency meeting on experimental Ebola vaccines as Congo outbreak spreads rapidly

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