DR Congo escalates Ebola response as outbreak deemed 'very high' risk

177 suspected deaths reported; families prevented from traditional burial rites and final farewells; nearly one million people displaced by armed conflict in affected region; healthcare workers exposed to contagion with inadequate protective equipment.

In the remote mining province of Ituri, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a lesser-known strain of Ebola has outpaced the systems meant to catch it — spreading through communities already fractured by conflict, displacement, and grief. Authorities have moved to restrict the very rituals through which people process loss, setting containment measures against cultural practice in a region where trust in institutions has long been eroded. The World Health Organisation has raised its alarm to the highest domestic level, and the world has begun to send money, but the outbreak grows faster th

DR Congo escalates Ebola response as outbreak deemed 'very high' risk

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