Africa CDC endorses DRC's aggressive Ebola containment strategy amid rapid spread

In the shadow of more than two thousand deaths and a virus that has leapt across five provinces in under three months, the Africa CDC has endorsed the Democratic Republic of the Congo's decision to abandon the conventional Ebola playbook in favor of something bolder and less certain. The DRC's 17th Ebola outbreak — caused by the Bundibugyo strain — has exposed the limits of contact tracing and isolation as primary tools when transmission chains have become largely invisible. What the continental health body is now backing is a philosophy of scale over precision: vaccinate broadly, search villa