Opinion: In DRC Ebola crisis, every red line has been crossed
The international community must urgently apply the hard-won lessons from previous outbreaks of Ebola to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the country’s deadliest outbreak rages across its conflict-hit eastern provinces.
The World Health Organization’s latest figures show 542 confirmed and probable cases of Ebola, which causes debilitating fevers and sometimes hemorrhaging, and kills about half of those infected, since the outbreak in DRC began in August. It is second in severity only to the West Africa epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people after erupting in 2014.
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