Ebola Spreads Through Overcrowded Displacement Camps in Congo

One million people displaced by violence face life-threatening Ebola exposure in camps with inadequate water and sanitation, creating mass casualty risk.

In the eastern reaches of Congo, where violence has uprooted more than a million lives, a second catastrophe has arrived in the form of Ebola — a virus that asks only for the conditions humanity's cruelest failures reliably provide: overcrowding, contaminated water, and the absence of care. These displacement camps, never meant to be permanent, have become laboratories for exponential suffering, where the distance between a preventable outbreak and a mass casualty event is measured not in science but in political will and resources. The tragedy is not that this was unforeseeable — it is that i

Ebola Spreads Through Overcrowded Displacement Camps in Congo

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