The Take: The Ebola outbreak the world isn’t paying attention to
A deadly Ebola outbreak in the DRC is spreading across borders, with no approved vaccine or treatment for this strain.

A deadly Ebola outbreak in the DRC is spreading across borders, with no approved vaccine or treatment for this strain.









WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is visiting Bunia in the DRC, the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak.
Workers in eastern DR Congo are rebuilding an Ebola treatment centre that was burned by protesters earlier this month.

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‘The Leopards are ready, they are safe, and the US will embrace this team,’ DRC’s ambassador to the US says.

Uganda has closed its border with neighbouring DR Congo for four weeks in an effort to contain an Ebola outbreak.
‘Stopping this Ebola transmission depends entirely on humanitarian access,’ said Tedros, the WHO chief.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says a delay in detecting cases means responders were now ‘playing catch-up’.