New strain of virus, aid cuts and cultural norms around burials and touch add to difficulties in stemming outbreak

Rachel Hagan speaks to health workers and aid groups about how difficult it is to stop an outbreak that took weeks to confirm in a country where hospitals and health centres…

At the hospital in Rwampara, one of the epicentres of a deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a simple plastic strip marked off the isolation centre for…

By SHARON NAKOLA in Nairobi, Kenya |