Ebola Without a Vaccine: Inside the DRC's Largest Outbreak
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is fighting the largest Ebola outbreak in its history — caused by Bundibugyo virus, a species with no licensed vaccine and no licensed treatment. Six thousand confirmed cases in fifteen weeks, an armed conflict at the epicenter, and a world that had prepared for a different strain.
In this episode, we go through what the numbers say, which institution stands behind each of them, and where the numbers cannot see: how the outbreak began in a gold-mining town in Ituri, why the world's Ebola toolkit doesn't apply here, the day-by-day spread across six…
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