{"id":59790,"date":"2026-06-03T06:44:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/battling-a-deadly-ebola-outbreak-in-eastern-congo\/03\/06\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T06:44:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:44:48","slug":"battling-a-deadly-ebola-outbreak-in-eastern-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/battling-a-deadly-ebola-outbreak-in-eastern-congo\/03\/06\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Battling a Deadly Ebola Outbreak in Eastern Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"site-content\">\n<div>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: <!-- -->Battling a Deadly Ebola Outbreak in Eastern Congo<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"video-header\">\n<div class=\"css-1g7y0i5 e1drnplw0\"><button tabindex=\"100\" class=\"css-1rtlxy\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"close\"><svg width=\"60\" height=\"60\" viewbox=\"0 0 60 60\" fill=\"none\"><circle cx=\"30\" cy=\"30\" r=\"30\" fill=\"white\" fill-opacity=\"0.9\"\/><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M38.4844 20.1006L39.8986 21.5148L21.5138 39.8996L20.0996 38.4854L38.4844 20.1006Z\" fill=\"black\"\/><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M21.5156 20.1006L20.1014 21.5148L38.4862 39.8996L39.9004 38.4854L21.5156 20.1006Z\" fill=\"black\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-18ow4sz e1drnplw2\">\n<div aria-labelledby=\"modal-title\" role=\"region\">\n<header class=\"css-1bzlfz\">\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"css-1igvuto\"><span>Back<\/span><\/button><\/header>\n<div class=\"css-uzyn7p\">\n<div class=\"css-1vxywau\">\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Battling a Deadly Ebola Outbreak in Eastern Congo<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">At the heart of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, health care workers are racing to open new treatment centers and ramp up testing. But after years of war, the deadly virus is just one of many challenges they\u2019re facing.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<dl class=\"css-p98d0w\">\n<dt class=\"css-xx7kwh\"\/>\n<dd class=\"css-4gvq6l\">\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cWe\u2019re at one of four Ebola treatment centers in Bunia. A 48-year-old woman who is a mother of five has arrived here feeling unwell. Doctors are asking her questions, assessing her, before they take her back to test her for Ebola.\u201d Kunihira Kaswera is one of the first patients at this new treatment center, which was built from the ground up less than 24 hours ago. As they wheel her to the isolation unit, she has a seizure. For a few tense moments, the medics wait for her to stabilize before she can be taken in for testing. Doctors won\u2019t know if she\u2019s positive for several hours. And yet, that\u2019s an improvement from just two weeks ago, when testing was concentrated 1,000 miles away in Kinshasa, delaying crucial diagnoses for days. \u201cIs this the lab?\u201d \u201cThis the lab.\u201d We\u2019re the first reporters to witness lab workers here in Bunia test for the rare Ebola species that has fueled the outbreak. \u201cWe were very surprised by the speed of this outbreak. We have, I can say, huge backlog of samples. We have very quickly overwhelmed by the work here. So last week we were able to run, like, 36 samples per day. And right now we are able to run 372 samples per day.\u201d \u201cThese samples of suspected Ebola cases just arrived at this laboratory. Right now it\u2019s about eight to 12 hours to get a test result, but they\u2019re working to get that down to two hours.\u201d Cutting the time spent transporting the samples is one key to slow the outbreak. At this clinic, the painstaking process of disinfecting the entire facility is underway after two health care workers here died of Ebola. New structures are also being built to isolate and triage suspected Ebola cases and protect other patients. But beyond Ebola, medical staff here are also caring for the victims of a wider war that hasn\u2019t stopped just because a deadly virus is spreading. Inside, we met a wounded Congolese soldier who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal. After years of fighting, he says Ebola has only added to an already dire situation.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<header class=\"css-jgknzh\">\n<div class=\"css-1gn3fip\">\n<div class=\"css-p5izi2\">\n<div class=\"css-1h4tnhd\"><nyt-betamax class=\"css-j5i4vc\"><template shadowrootmode=\"open\" slotassignment=\"named\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video-static\/betamax\/player-0.2.48-CnxAEwcy.css\" crossorigin=\"\"\/><\/template><nyt-betamax-cover><template shadowrootmode=\"open\" slotassignment=\"named\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video-static\/betamax\/cover-0.2.48-eTrf0IGY.css\" crossorigin=\"\"\/><\/template><nyt-betamax-poster><template shadowrootmode=\"open\" slotassignment=\"named\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video-static\/betamax\/poster-0.2.48-BdueiXaE.css\" crossorigin=\"\"\/><\/template><\/nyt-betamax-poster><\/nyt-betamax-cover><nyt-betamax-overlay-controls><template shadowrootmode=\"open\" slotassignment=\"named\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video-static\/betamax\/overlay-controls-0.2.48-BN-qu2gk.css\" crossorigin=\"\"\/><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video-static\/betamax\/share-button-0.2.48-Dk6TOAo1.css\" crossorigin=\"\"\/><\/template><\/nyt-betamax-overlay-controls><\/nyt-betamax><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1msb6m0\"><span class=\"css-hple31\">At the heart of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, health care workers are racing to open new treatment centers and ramp up testing. But after years of war, the deadly virus is just one of many challenges they\u2019re facing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Bethlehem Feleke, Michael Anthony Adams, Yasu Tsuji, Jon Hazell and Monika Cvorak<\/p>\n<p>June 2, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/world\/africa\/100000010936755\/ebola-virus-outbreak-congo-treatment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Battling a Deadly Ebola Outbreak in Eastern Congo transcript Back transcript Battling a Deadly Ebola Outbreak in Eastern Congo<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/battling-a-deadly-ebola-outbreak-in-eastern-congo\/03\/06\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/06\/02\/world\/africa\/170663_00vid-DRC-ebola_v10\/170663_00vid-DRC-ebola_v10-facebookJumbo.png?play-overlay","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}