Public-health researcher James Baguma has studied the interactions between bats, which can carry the virus, and people in the region near the latest epidemic.

The outbreak is only the third caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus, for which there are no approved vaccines or therapeutics.

The type of Ebola virus behind the latest outbreak, known as Bundibugyo, is rare

A major Ebola outbreak has been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with a few confirmed cases in neighbouring Uganda.

A deadly outbreak of Ebola has once again risen. The disease has been recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country that has battled the disease more than any…