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    Ebola In A Conflict Zone

    Only days after the Democratic Republic of Congo declared its Ebola outbreak was over, there's been a new eruption — in a dangerous part of the country.
    by Jason Beaubien Aug 02, 2018 2 minutes
    A health worker monitors the temperature of a traveler from the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the Ebola outbreak that ended in July. The virus has now surfaced in another part of the country.

    The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo comes just a week after the last outbreak there was declared over. Making things worse for Congolese health officials, this new cluster of Ebola cases is in the volatile North Kivu province, where heavily armed militants have driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.

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