Story | 29 June 2020
As the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) grapples with the coronavirus pandemic and a deadly measles epidemic, it is also facing its 11th eruption of Ebola — having barely seen off its tenth.
Ebola is a viral haemorrhagic fever, first identified in 1976, close to the river from which it takes its name. Transmission is via the bodily fluids of an infected person.