A Dangerous Twist To The Latest Ebola Outbreak
How do you reach patients in a conflict zone? Health workers are coming up with creative strategies in a violent zone of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
by Nurith Aizenman
Aug 27, 2018
3 minutes
It was the news they'd been dreading. Last week, world health officials learned that a doctor's wife had contracted Ebola. She is from Oicha, a town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo that is surrounded by a violent insurgent militia called the Allied Democratic Forces.
Her case is one of many in an outbreak that's been ongoing since the start of August. But it was the first to be confirmed in a location that is extremely dangerous for health workers to reach because of the
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