A day in the life of Congo's Ebola surveillance teams
Moubarack Kano (L), a Congolese physician who serves as the medical director of the Centre Neuro-Psychopathologique in Bunia, looks at medical records at a health facility, as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain, in Bunia, DRC on July 10, 2026.
On a good day, there are only four cars available to ferry surveillance teams round the city of Bunia, the epicentre of an Ebola outbreak surging through the Democratic Republic of Congo.
They were all out when Dr Moubarack Kano came in to work. So he set off in his own white Subaru Forester, with a colleague alongside him, piles of emergency alert forms stuffed into seat pockets and a rosary swinging from the rear-view mirror.
