Congo Ebola outbreak reaches 3,226 deaths as response faces $1B funding shortfall

In 113 days, the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed 3,226 lives — a pace without precedent in the recorded history of the disease. The outbreak does not persist because containment is impossible; the WHO's own director-general has said it can be stopped. It persists because the will and the funding to stop it have not materialized, while the gold beneath the afflicted earth continues to move, and the profits continue to accumulate, undisturbed by the dying above.