Large Ebola outbreak declared in Congo with 65 deaths reported

65 deaths reported in Ituri province with hundreds of suspected infections; outbreak poses significant risk to healthcare workers and family caregivers through direct contact transmission.

In the forests and cities of northeastern Congo, a familiar and feared virus has once again emerged from the shadows — this time in Ituri province, where 65 people have died and hundreds more are suspected of carrying Ebola. What troubles the world's public health community is not merely the outbreak itself, but the silence that preceded its discovery: a disease of this scale, in a country that has faced Ebola seventeen times before, went undetected long enough to seed a city and approach international borders. The event asks an old and urgent question — whether the systems humanity builds to

Large Ebola outbreak declared in Congo with 65 deaths reported

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