By Lauren Weber
From the article:
The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, already the seventh largest in history, is on the verge of spinning out of control, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
While cases of Ebola had slowed from 40 to about 10 a week in the past few months, political instability has led to rioting and suspicion of government forces, which has sidelined health workers in an epicenter of the outbreak, putting that progress at risk.
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“This is exactly the scenario that people have long feared with this outbreak,” Jeremy Konyndyk, a senior policy fellow for the Washington-based Center for Global Development who previously led parts of the 2014 Ebola response for the Obama administration, told HuffPost. “Losing a week or more of containment efforts is a big handicap, and will likely spawn more cases.”
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