Congo's Ebola outbreak poised to become deadliest on record

In eastern Congo, a virus older than its current victims is outrunning every human institution assembled to stop it. The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola — without approved vaccines or treatments — has killed more than 2,000 people in months, moving at a speed no previous outbreak in recorded history has matched, and threatening to surpass the West African epidemic of 2014-2016 that once seemed the worst the disease could do. The outbreak found its footing in silence, circulating undetected for months before the alarm was raised, in a region where conflict, poverty, and mistrust had already thinned