In the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Ebola has once again begun its grim passage through communities and clinics alike, the government has turned to vaccination as its most deliberate act of protection — prioritizing the health workers who stand closest to the dying. This is not merely a logistical deployment but a reckoning with hard history: past outbreaks taught the world that when medical personnel fall, the capacity to heal collapses with them. The vaccine exists now in a way it did not before, and that fact alone changes the moral and practical calculus of response. Whether doses c
DR Congo Deploys Ebola Vaccine for Health Workers Amid Rising Death Toll
Multiple deaths reported from the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo, with health workers at particular risk.