EDITORIAL: Stem societal factors fanning the spread of deadly Ebola
A man receives a vaccine against Ebola from a nurse outside the Afia Himbi Health Centre in Goma, DR Congo on July 15, 2019. More than 1,800 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have succumbed to Ebola since the outbreak started there in August 2018. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
The announcement this week that scientists had made a possible breakthrough in the search for a cure for the deadly Ebola virus and the challenges that the same scientists have faced in the efforts to get the treatment to those most in need of it once again reflects the most enduring paradoxes of Africa.
More than 1,800 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have succumbed to Ebola since the outbreak started there in August 2018. An outbreak that swept through Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone between 2013 and 2016 claimed more than 11,000 lives.
