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aid — "the exact surveillance system meant to catch these viruses early." ### [Global Health](https://www.npr.org/sections/global-health/) ### [Ebola outbreak in DRC draws attention to Trump administration's dismantling of USAID](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/18/nx-s1-5825646/ebola-outbreak-in-drc-draws-attention-to-trump-administrations-dismantling-of-usaid) The U.S. State
response this week to the new surge of cases in DR Congo, with funerals banned for those suspected to have been infected. This has sparked tension in some communities, with [a crowd angrily setting fire
aid cuts last year, was hoping to open about 50 clinics to treat [Ebola](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ebola) in the DRC. “It’s a little tough to get to because it’s in a rural area
DRC, Anne Ancia, told Reuters that in responding to the [Ebola](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ebola) outbreak it had emptied its stocks of protective equipment in the capital, Kinshasa, and was preparing a cargo plane to bring
Ebola treatment centre in Rwampara that a crowd set on fire on Thursday after authorities refused to hand over a victim’s body. Photograph: Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/Reuters Nearly 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths
response, says Konyndyk. In a statement to NPR, the State Department said "It is false to claim that the USAID reform has negatively impacted our ability to respond to Ebola," adding that funding and support
DRC) have set fire to a treatment facility after being prevented from taking the body of a local man, underscoring deep mistrust and anger around the response to the virus. The attack took place
response has been complicated by the virus’s presence in densely populated urban areas in eastern DRC. The new case was located in a rural area near the provincial capital of Bukavu, which fell into
Ebola, for which no vaccines or treatments exist. Most cases are in the DRC’s Ituri province, with a handful reported elsewhere in the country, and two in neighbouring Uganda. Rising case numbers may paradoxically
aid cuts](/news/2026/4/9/us-led-historic-foreign-aid-decline-in-2025-amid-trump-cuts-oecd) by major international donors, [particularly the United States](/news/2025/12/29/us-slashes-un-humanitarian-aid-to-2bn-huge-cut-as-trump-demands-reforms). The WHO has said late detection, the [absence of a vaccine](/news/2026/5/21/ebola-outbreak-when-will-a-vaccine-be-developed-for-the-new-strain) or virus-specific therapeutics, widespread armed violence and high mobility among
responsible for the outbreak. Africa CDC said this highlighted “a deeper structural injustice in global health innovation: the Bundibugyo Ebola virus was identified nearly two decades ago, yet no licensed vaccines or therapeutics specific
DRC’s Health Minister Samuel-Roger Kamba said on Saturday. “This strain has a very high lethality rate, which can reach 50 percent.” The outbreak, the country’s seventeenth, was confirmed on Friday
aid organisation Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French acronym MSF. “In Ituri, many people already struggle to access healthcare and live with ongoing insecurity, making rapid action critical to prevent the outbreak from