Health Officials Worried About Containing Latest Ebola Outbreak

International health officials worry about containing the virus in an area dense with armed militias and close to the porous border with Uganda.

The world has never been so prepared for an Ebola outbreak, but the latest emergence of the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s conflict-ridden east is proving the most dangerous in years.

Seventy-two out of 111 patients who have been infected with the hemorrhagic fever have died, making this outbreak the deadliest in more than a decade in Congo, where the disease was first diagnosed in 1976 and named after the nearby Ebola River.

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