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Ebola Is Back And World Health Officials Are Racing To Stop Another Catastrophe (Huffington Post)

May 14, 2018

From the article: 

The World Health Organization announced Friday that it hopes to deploy an experimental vaccine against the developing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, even as the agency plans for the “worst case scenario.”

...While WHO says the risk of Ebola spreading internationally is low, experts worry that the location of Bikoro on the Congo River could lead to outbreaks elsewhere, the STAT news site first pointed out.

“The biggest thing to watch is just the location around the Congo River because it’s the superhighway of Central Africa,” Konyndyk told HuffPost. “If you start to see disease spread to other cities up and down the river ... and if it were to hit a major population, then we’d be in real trouble,” he added.