Health officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) reported this week that the most recent Ebola outbreak, which began in a remote village of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (see this blog, May 12, 2018), has spread to a nearby city of over a million people. Only one case of Ebola has been reported in the city so far, but the fear is that the outbreak could spread more quickly now, making containment more difficult. In a city, tracking down and potentially vaccinating every individual who has been exposed to a patient becomes much more difficult.
Keep your fingers crossed. We'll be watching this outbreak closely.
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