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    The Endless Days Of A Young Doctor Battling Ebola

    by Marc Silver May 29, 2018 6 minutes
    A worker disinfects shoes outside the Ebola security zone at a hospital in Mbandaka in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    Dr. Leah Feldman is on Ebola duty — again.

    The young Maryland doctor is a veteran of the Ebola wars. She worked on the Doctors Without Borders team in Guinea in 2014 and 2015.

    She happened to be in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, working on a cholera vaccination project, when a case of Ebola was reported in a remote part of the northwest in April.

    So Feldman was drafted into the war against the virus. She is now medical coordinator for the Doctors Without Borders effort in Mbandaka, a city of more than a million, on the banks of the Congo River, where the virus has recently spread. As it did in West Africa, the medical charity is playing a key role in stopping the epidemic.

    The toll so far: 35 confirmed cases, 19 additional suspected cases and 25 deaths.

    Feldman not only knows logistics, she knows what it's like to put on protective gear to treat patients: "It's quite hot.

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