EBOLA. “Of particular concern, he says, is the lack of understanding about the true scale of the current outbreak and how far and how fast it is spreading through undetected cases. “I think it’s safe to say it could be unprecedented,” he says. “The words an epidemiologist should never want to hear are ‘unrecognised chains of transmission’.”” (1)

EBOLA. “The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the deadliest in the country’s history with at least 2,325 people killed, according to government data, surpassing the toll from the 2018-20 outbreak.”

EBOLA. “The Ebola outbreak currently ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was caused by a new transmission from animals to humans rather than by variants linked to earlier outbreaks, according to a new study published in the medical journal Nature Medicine.”

EBOLA. “In the past 12 weeks, the current outbreak has grown at eight times the pace of the world’s biggest Ebola outbreak, which took place in West Africa between 2018 and 2020.”

EBOLA. “The U.S. State Department on ⁠Wednesday ⁠nearly doubled its financial commitment ⁠to the Ebola response in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, announcing plans ​to provide an additional $242 million to combat the second-largest outbreak of the disease in history.”

EBOLA. “…the primary issue is that more than 80% of new cases in Ituri province, the outbreak epicenter, are not linked to known cases, and more than 60% of Ebola deaths are coming from communities rather than treatment centers.”

EBOLA. “The new outbreak’s origin is still a medical mystery. The vast majority of cases are emerging from unknown chains of transmission, the World Health Organization said.”

EBOLA. “Here in the camps dotted around Ituri Province, the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the virus appears to be spreading among the cramped tents that house more than a million displaced Congolese.”

EBOLA. “Seven American aid workers returning from the DRC to help with the Ebola outbreak are now quarantined in Kenya due to new U.S. travel restrictions.”

EBOLA. “This outbreak is a case study in what happens when disease surveillance, humanitarian infrastructure, and multilateral trust erode all at the same time.”