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Ebola transmission depends entirely on humanitarian access,” he said. The security situation in the eastern DRC, plagued by conflict involving a litany of armed groups for three decades, is a huge obstacle in outreach. State
Containing the [Ebola](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ebola) outbreak in the [Democratic Republic of Congo](https://www.theguardian.com/world/congo) requires community cooperation and is “everybody’s business”, the World Health Organization has said. [Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus](https://www.theguardian.com
contain this outbreak.” The response to the outbreak has been complicated by the transient nature of many communities in Ituri, where goldmines attract migrant workers, as well as by international aid cuts. Philippe Guiton
contain [this strain of Ebola](/news/2026/5/18/ebola-hantavirus-is-the-world-prepared-for-the-next-pandemic). The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) announced on Tuesday that its team of experts had arrived in Bunia, the capital of Ituri province, to “strengthen
involve washing and touching the body and large gatherings of mourners, are considered high risk for transmission. “His family, friends, and other young people wanted to take his body home for a funeral even though
involved. Dealing with Bundibugyo is "one of the most significant concerns" in this outbreak, says Prof Trudie Lang from the University of Oxford. Symptoms are thought to appear between two and 21 days after somebody
containing the virus and caring for the patients, including supportive care such as rehydration. Bausch says control measures include very good infection control and something called [contact tracing](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/08/g-s1-121074/hantavirus-contact-tracing) — tracking down people
containment measures are not rapidly strengthened,” she warned. ## Will there be a vaccine? There is currently no approved vaccine for this strain of the Ebola virus. A vaccine named Ervebo, manufactured by Merck, which
involved dispelling rumours and explaining why traditional mourning practices - such as washing the bodies of the deceased - had to be banned. He worked within communities near his home in the north of the country
Ebola becoming Covid-like in their spread. As darkening news from central Africa throws the withdrawal of US international aid into terrible relief, so we revisit memories of those early months of 2020 when reports