In the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Ebola continues to claim its toll on the living and the healers alike, authorities have turned to a familiar instrument — the Ervebo vaccine — hoping that what worked before may work again. Frontline health workers, those who stand closest to suffering and therefore closest to danger, are the first to receive these trials. It is a wager placed not in ignorance but in hard-won experience, a society reaching into its own history of crisis for the tools to survive the present one.
DR Congo launches Ebola vaccine trials for frontline health workers
Health workers are at direct risk from Ebola exposure during the ongoing outbreak in DR Congo.