DR Congo Ebola Outbreak Spreads to Sixth Province
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DR Congo Ebola Outbreak Spreads to Sixth Province

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The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached a sixth province, with confirmed cases climbing to 4,665 and deaths reaching 2,184. The death toll was reached almost three times faster than during the outbreak over a decade ago.

The scale of the crisis has made this the second largest outbreak on record. Health workers, including Gédéon Banga Ngbape and his team of community health workers in eastern Congo, are struggling to keep up as the virus outpaces contact tracing. Dr. Anne Rimoin, director of the Center for Global Health Security at UCLA, noted that the outbreak continues to worsen.

Containment efforts are further complicated by the fact that no vaccine is approved for this specific strain.

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