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    Ebola outbreak shaping up as most dangerous test of world’s ability to respond since global crisis

    The latest Ebola epidemic is shaping up to be the most dangerous and difficult test of the world’s ability to contain the disease since the catastrophic West African outbreak in…
    by Helen Branswell Aug 16, 2018 4 minutes
    Medical workers disinfect a coffin inside an Ebola treatment center in Beni.

    The latest Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is shaping up to be the most dangerous and difficult test of the world’s ability to contain the disease since the catastrophic West African outbreak in 2014 and 2015.

    Like an outbreak earlier this year, in the western part of the country, cases have been reported across multiple locations, disease transmission is taking place in cities where hundreds of thousands of people live, and there’s the potential for the virus to spread across several international borders.

    But this outbreak is occurring in a part of the Congo that has long been a conflict zone, with over 1 million

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